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Goodfellow between them had finished the whaleboat. The truth was though I did not at once perceive it that upon its completion the old man had begun to drink hard. Drink invariably made him morose, suspicious. His real goodwill to me had not changed, as I was to learn.
Tracey went away to sleep for the last time in the house occupied by old Roku and Gurden's connections the people who had been so kind to her during those first long, weary months on Tebuan. At six o'clock in the morning Barry came ashore in the whaleboat, followed by the dinghy, which was to convey the prisoners on board.
"On the Big Rock. I will tell you afterward. Come now!" "But my men in the whaleboat?" Mauriri was in an agony of apprehension. "They are with the women on the strange schooner. They will not be killed. I tell you true. The devils want sailors. But you they will kill. Listen!" From the water, in a cracked tenor voice, came a French hunting song. "They are landing on the beach.
"Up here, Rick, with me." He looked up, and his eyes focused again on Tony and Zircon! A motor whaleboat drew up to the landing stage, and two husky frogmen handed up a suited figure. "Here's one, Lieutenant," a frogman called. "All right, Danny. Where's the other?" "Heading for the reef at top speed. Jonesy's after him." "Go help Jonesy haul him in." "Yes, Sir."
He shut off the electric light, picked up the bundle of books, carefully latched the front door, and went down to the waiting whaleboat. At Goboto the traders come off their schooners and the planters drift in from far, wild coasts, and one and all they assume shoes, white duck trousers, and various other appearances of civilization.
The number two cutter, with Ferriss in command, was a bad sailer, and had fallen astern. She was already out of hailing distance; but Bennett, who was at the whaleboat's tiller, in the instant's glance that he dared to shoot behind him saw with satisfaction that Ferriss had followed his example. The whaleboat and the number two cutter were the only boats now left to the expedition.
A small whaleboat was towing astern of the vessel in case the wind should fall light and the ship drift in too close to the shore.
"Fresh," he said. "Only rain-water." "You don't object to that?" I asked. "No," said he. "Well, then, what ails you?" I cried. "In plain United States, Mr. Dodd," he returned, "a whaleboat, five ash sweeps, and a barrel of stinking pork." "Or, in other words, the whole thing?" I commented. "Well, it's this way," he condescended to explain.
He looked toward the settlement and saw a crowd of natives pushing a whaleboat into the water; looked again, and saw old Maka taking his place in the stern sheets and assisting a woman in beside him. The woman! It needed no second glance to tell him it was Madge. He had never counted on her coming off in company. Fool that he was, he had taken it for granted that she would be alone.
As it was, the surprise was so overwhelming that the pirates, who had been concealed in the large whaleboat that had come alongside, were not only able to gain a foothold upon the deck, but for a time it seemed as though they would drive the crew of the brig below the hatches.
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