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Updated: July 4, 2025
Not yet are the old days forgotten, when Elias Hasket Derby's ships brought back fortunes from Batavia, and when Captain Carnes, by one voyage in Jonathan Peele's schooner Rajah to the northern coast of Sumatra for wild pepper, made a profit of seven hundred per cent of both the total cost of the schooner itself and the whole expense of the entire expedition.
"Bowles, you must have an imagination the same as your uncle Jerry had. And to speak of the Carnes in a light way of talking, after all their misfortunes, is terrible. Why, I passed the old castle one night last week, with the moon to one side of it, and only me in my one-horse shay to the other, and none but a man with a first-rate conscience would have had the stomach to do so.
We have to touch our caps and make our manners to Dick Carnes and the rest of the flunkies in the after cabin. My father pays as much for me as Dick Carnes' father does for him, and I don't think it is fair that he should live in the cabin and I in the steerage." "If you get marks enough, you can have a berth in the cabin," replied Wilton. "Marks! Confound the marks! I'm not a baby.
"You're not as strong or as agile, Carnes, and you haven't the mechanical ability to make the repair. Hand me that line." He fastened one end of a coil of manila rope which Carnes handed him to his waist, while the detective fastened the other end to one of the safety belt hooks. With a word of farewell, he climbed out of the cockpit and onto a wing.
Some little delay was thus interposed. Carnes began to grow impatient at what seemed the long-winded and unseasonable discourse. It being, at length announced, that the pursuing party were in readiness, Major Lee directed a change in the officer, giving the command to Cornet Middleton. His object was to add to the delay.
The first bomb released struck the building squarely while the other landed only a few feet away. Instead of the puffs of smoke which they had expected, the bombs had no effect. The volley which Carnes had discharged fell full on the building as harmlessly as had the two pilot shots. "Were these bombs armed, Lieutenant?" demanded the doctor. "Yes, sir.
"How I have worried and fretted and fumed because I had no way to make money here! Now besides what I get for my specimens I am to have a chance to earn a little more. Professor Carnes will be here till cold weather, and since I can give him 'intelligent assistance, as he calls it, he will have work for me in connection with his notes, copying and indexing them, and gathering new material.
I'm ahead of Carnes so far on marks this month." "Well, if you want to be the head flunky, I hope you'll get it. We are not going ashore to-morrow, they say," added Wilton, changing the topic to get nearer to the business of the hour. "So Pelham told me." "Are you willing to stay on board and study, and do ship's duty, on the Fourth of July?" "We are going to celebrate." "How?"
"What the dickens?" cried the doctor. He and Carnes jumped from their shelter and ran over the knoll. On the plain a few hundred yards from them, a straggling line of Russians were advancing with fixed bayonets. McCready was nowhere in sight. "Where the devil is McCready?" cried the doctor. "He must have been killed. Hello, one of the guns is gone, too.
"You do, Carnes." "Well, I know something about a ship," replied the dignified young gentleman, who had made one voyage up the Mediterranean with his uncle. "I was pretty sure we should get out into blue water by to-morrow." "Nonsense!" "Shuffles said so." "He is mistaken." "What are we going to do?" "I don't know? I'm content to wait till orders come."
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