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Updated: June 7, 2025
Oh, Billie!" she said, plaintively. "Let me come up here with you?" "But you'll feel better lying down, dear," he said. "Better go back." "It's so close and hot down there. Please let me come up." "Why, yes, Florrie, if you like; but wait until I fit you out. Come down a moment." They descended, and he found rubber boots, a sou'wester, and a long oilskin coat, which she donned in her room.
The only traces of his former self were the patent-leather boots, still persistent in their gloss and shine, that showed grim incongruity below the vast compass of the oilskin breeches. As Wilbur came on deck he saw the crew of the schooner hurrying forward, six of them, Chinamen every one, in brown jeans and black felt hats. On the quarterdeck stood the Captain, barking his orders.
Turning round upon his stool behind the counter, Mr Gills looked out among the instruments in the window, to see if his nephew might be crossing the road. No. He was not among the bobbing umbrellas, and he certainly was not the newspaper boy in the oilskin cap who was slowly working his way along the piece of brass outside, writing his name over Mr Gills's name with his forefinger.
Then came several days of fierce and continuous cold rain, but he put on an oilskin coat that he found among the stores and spent much of the time out of doors, hunting ducks along the edges of the larger lake, walking now and then for the sake of walking, and, on rare occasions, seeking the wild cattle for fresh meat.
And all of this, I wrote with a sharpened splinter of reed, cutting the words into the surface of the leaf. Then, when I had made an end of writing, I gave the leaf to the bo'sun, and he enclosed it in the oilskin bag, after which he gave the signal for those in the hulk to haul on the smaller line, and this they did.
Then, just as he was standing there, humming something softly beneath his breath, the cavalcade, headed by Cleek and Mr. Narkom, rather grim and silent, reached the gateway. Behind them Merriton gave a sudden cry which brought the doctor to his side behind them three men were carrying something something bulky and large and wrapped in a black oilskin tarpaulin.
No accident, no luck, no debt-paying Indian could account wholly for that moment. Gale knew he held in his hands more than gold. The box was a tin one, and not all rusty. Gale pried open the reluctant lid. A faint old musty odor penetrated his nostrils. Inside the box lay a packet wrapped in what once might have been oilskin. He took it out and removed this covering.
"I'm romantic perhaps," confessed Mrs Bosenna; "but I can never think of any ship's captain as being quite an ordinary man. The dangers he must go through and the foreign countries he visits and up night after night in all weathers, staring into the darkness in an oilskin suit!" "'Tisn' the sort o' man I should ever choose for a husband, if I wanted one," maintained Dinah.
With such thoughts rapidly passing through my mind, I turned to search for my double-barelled gun, which I had left covered with an oilskin at the head of my own break wind. It was gone, as was also the double-barelled gun that had belonged to the overseer.
I heard Miss Belcher breathing hard as I lugged out the oilskin packet, tore open the knotted string which bound it, and, drawing forth the parchment, spread it, with shaking fingers, on the table. At any rate, I could not recall it. They were marked in red ink, and I explained their meaning to Miss Belcher, who had pounced upon them at once.
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