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"You loved these people?" cried Herrick, strangely touched. "I?" said Attwater. "Dear no! Don't think me a philanthropist. I dislike men, and hate women. If I like the islanders at all, it is because you see them here plucked of their lendings, their dead birds and cocked hats, their petticoats and coloured hose. Here was one I liked though," and he set his foot upon a mound.
Davis had not yet moved; he stood astonished, with his back to the figure-head, his hands clutching it behind him, his body inclined forward from the waist. Attwater turned deliberately and covered him with his rifle. "Davis," he cried, in a voice like a trumpet, "I give you sixty seconds to make your peace with God!" Davis looked, and his mind awoke.
Attwater fired; there came a spasmodic movement of the victim, and immediately above the middle of his forehead a black hole marred the whiteness of the figure-head. A dreadful pause; then again the report, and the solid sound and jar of the bullet in the wood; and this time the captain had felt the wind of it along his cheek.
Not with all your gods about you, and in as snug a berth as this. For it is a pretty snug berth, said he, with a sweeping look. 'The spot, as you are good enough to indicate, is not entirely intolerable, was the reply. 'Shell, I suppose? said Davis. 'Yes, there was shell, said Attwater. 'This is a considerable big beast of a lagoon, sir, said the captain.
"If you're not going to tell, you're not going to tell, and there's an end to it." "There can be no reason why I should affect the least degree of secrecy about my island," returned Attwater; "that came wholly to an end with your arrival; and I am sure, at any rate, that gentlemen like you and Mr. Whish I should have always been charmed to make perfectly at home.
He woke up now, as with a start. "You were talking of a charter," said he. "Was I?" said Attwater. "Well, let's talk of it no more at present." "Your own schooner is overdue, I understand?" continued the captain. "You understand perfectly, Captain Brown," said Attwater; "thirty-three days overdue at noon to-day." "She comes and goes, eh? plies between here and ...?" hinted the captain.
He opened a door, and Herrick saw a large display of apparatus neatly ordered: pumps and pipes, and the leaded boots, and the huge snouted helmets shining in rows along the wall; ten complete outfits. "The whole eastern half of my lagoon is shallow, you must understand," said Attwater; "so we were able to get in the dress to great advantage.
Davis had not yet moved; he stood astonished, with his back to the figure-head, his hands clutching it behind him, his body inclined forward from the waist. Attwater turned deliberately and covered him with his rifle. 'Davis, he cried, in a voice like a trumpet, 'I give you sixty seconds to make your peace with God! Davis looked, and his mind awoke.
'No folk-lore about Mr Whish I beg your pardon, captain: Huish not Whish, of course, said Attwater. As the boy was filling Huish's glass, the bottle escaped from his hand and was shattered, and the wine spilt on the verandah floor.
"'Ope you made 'em jump," said Huish. "When it was necessary, Mr. Whish, I made them jump," said Attwater. "You bet you did," cried the captain. He was a good deal flushed, but not so much with wine as admiration; and his eyes drank in the huge proportions of the other with delight. "You bet you did, and you bet that I can see you doing it! By God, you're a man, and you can say I said so."
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