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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Singing 'I'm afraid to go home in the dark," interposed the India-rubber Man dryly. He got down off the table and stretched his arms. "Well, I shan't be sorry to get some sleep." "Sleep!" echoed Thorogood. "You ought to see the stokers' mess-deck. The watch-off have just come up from below after sixteen hours in the stokeholds.
"Thank you," she said, and went below. "That's over," said Lund, letting out whatever emotions he might have repressed in a long breath. "Now, then, trim ship! Watch-off, get below. We're goin' to drive her for all she's worth." He took the wheel himself as the men jumped to the sheets and soon Lund was getting every foot of possible speed out of the schooner.
There were twenty men in each mess, and seventeen messes on that particular mess-deck, and here the members simultaneously ate, slept, sang, washed their clothes, cursed and laughed, skylarked or quarrelled all round during the waking hours of their watch-off. Still Nosey did not forget. Then came Janie's letter from the Middlesex Hospital. Janie was in a "decline."
An' Deming's the one who'll stir up the trouble, take it from me. Tell Hansen to turn in his watch-off, I shan't take a deck for a day or two, you'll have to go on handlin' it between you. I've got to make my peace with the gal, an' do what I can with the skipper." "She'll not make peace easily. But the skipper's in a bad way." Lund lit his pipe. "I'd jest as soon it was war.
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