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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Now then, down with you," growled the beachcomber, and Carey and the doctor had to go, leaving Bostock with his eyes far more wide open than usual. "I wish the doctor would talk to me," said Carey to himself as he took his seat in the well-formed whale-boat, which he rightly supposed must have come ashore somewhere on this ocean king's dominions. "He is so horribly quiet."
"Bucket," said the beachcomber, when this second watering had come to an end, and Jack, who knew what was expected of him, took a bunch of grass to make a brush, crept into the first tub, and while one of his fellows held the bucket ready, the pearls, worth scores, perhaps hundred of pounds, were swept into it.
Elizabeth Morey, terrified out of her senses at the dreadful scenes she had witnessed, attempted to spring overboard, but the beachcomber caught her as she came on deck, urged her not to be frightened, and promised her "in the name of the Virgin" that no harm should come to her.
"Tell boys kedgee fis'?" The beachcomber nodded, and the black shouted again, with the result that six more of the blacks came running to the side and dropped over into the canoe. "Hi, Jack, tell the others, if cookey here " "Dis cookey?" asked the black, touching Carey on the head. "No, stupid. That one." "Iss. Dat cookey," and he nodded and grinned at Bostock.
Anyway, this beachcomber carried the woman and her daughter all over the shop, but mostly to out-of-the-way islands, where there were no police, and he thought, perhaps, the soft job hung out. I’ve my own view of this old party; but I was just as glad he had kept Uma clear of Apia and Papeete and these flash towns.
"Well, Black Jack, what do you do with your prisoners?" The fierce look died into a broad grin, and he showed his white teeth. "Make fire; eatum," he said, promptly. "Make big feast." "Go back!" growled the so-called king. "No. Mumkull; kill, eatum." "Not now. Be off." The black darted back to his companions, and the beachcomber turned to Carey. "Want some more proof?" he said. Carey was silent.
"I know one of them that can't, Dan. At the same time, can a rat like Phineas P. Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it?" "They did that last night. Still, I've known monkeys that would fight an' was human enough to settle a grudge. Follow me, Jack." Together they repaired to Jackson Street bulkhead.
No telling what you might try to do. But see here. You're no drunken beachcomber. I know a gentleman when I see one. Gimme your word you'll not try to skip out or send a message back to the States and I'll go easy on you. I'm so dashed kindhearted, I am, that " Jeff leaped to the rail, stood poised an instant, and dived into the blue Pacific.
The steamer was nearly laden with valuable pearl shell and the boxes of pearls hoarded up by the old beachcomber, who was supposed to have escaped from Norfolk Island with a party of his fellows who had all passed away. These must have been enough, with their insurance, to quite compensate the company for their loss.
A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much as through pity. The grim mockery of it! those South Sea loafers, taking advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars.
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