The Argosy, October 1906 — page 128: what you’re looking at

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“THE ARGOSY. ae had Soe our Se in . many aks Ss After breakfasting myself, -while the oa carpenter kept the deck, and seeing that = the prisoners’ wants were attended to, I ; priced up a bit, as became one in charge Ri i 2 | then, in pursuance of a plan I had : _matured overnight, ‘proceeded to inter- _ view Captain Milligan.. Before turning the key I knocked on tz Zz us door and was bidden to enter. JI found him lying in his bunk in the irons on ankles and wrists—namely, on - ~his furious rejoinder. “So, my fine cock!” I said to myself, __. that’s your temper, is it?” and without - another word I turned on my heel, and 2 _ his back with his hands clasped in front. ee ‘Good morning, Captain ee ES ok io began. ‘ “Don’t good morning me, you in- ___ fernal two-faced mutinous hound!” was \e shut and locked the door, resolved to go leave him to his thoughts for another ae ~twenty-four hours. as I did not go near Hogan, intending to deal with his master—and mine—first. oes Mrs. Milligan gave us no trouble, for a when she learned that her husband and _ the mate were in irons, she became docile as a kitten, and hardly spoke above a -___ - whisper to the steward, who waited upon = The second morning found the skipper B not quite so defiant when I entered his _. cabin, and he even grunted a response to <i _my salutation. I went at once to the point. | er ; “The situation on your ship, Captain Milligan,” said I, “is none of my seek- ing or making. As you heard me tell the men, @ don’t believe in violence at sea on the part of either officers or crew. - For what has happened you have wholly _ ~*~ Mr. Hogan and yourself to blame. The -men have been treated with needless _ _Miggs as little short of deliberate mur- ~ _ der.”’ : If he could have killed me with a ~ look, I had been a dead man then and there, -but he simply gritted his teeth and held his: tongue. ‘* You heard what the men are resolved of so finea ship as the Shanadoah, and ~ only comfortable posture permitted by posture. you came aboard! brutality, and I regard the loss of poor on ae I can’t chsde heat and = I tried they’d probably send me to join you and your mate. When I consented to take charge it was solely with the idea of protecting the_ lives of yourself, your wife, and Mr. Hogan, and of saving the ship. But I’ve no notion of running my neck in a noose, and, if I consent to~ stand between you and the crew, I insist" on your signing a statement. which will acquit me of all blame. Will vals sign such a paper?” Sook “Tl see you hanged first! ” he shouted, jerking himself into a sitting ‘Don’t you come to me with — any of your blasted palaver, you. slum- gullion! I know you and all your tribe, and I’ve seen your little game ever since |” and he ran on in a burst of profanity which I _ escaped by ~ Sa a - san em “ i +=" ar making my exit. and locking the door “00 Sees ‘hi. : as before. I found Hogan just as intractable, but twice as profane and foul-mouthed in his ° abuse of myself and the crew. He vowed he would “ do for us,” and land us all in = jail when he got us ashore. _ For his vile talk and impotent threats I cared little, but the mulish obstinacy of the precious pair bade fair to render futile all my well-meaning plans. should say that the men kept a perpetual guard of two of their number on watch in the cuddy, and consequently every word of my interviews with the skipper and the mate was carried forward. As I paced the deck that afternoon on the dog-watch, Harris came aft and said: “ They’re a sweet. lot, them two, burn me if they ain’t!” jerking his thumb downward over the cuddy skylight. “ That’seright |” Was. my emphatic re- joinder, “ but let me tell you, my friend, that we’ve caught — aw pair of Tartars!” and leaving him to diges went below. ¢ - However, the events of the next week gave us little leisure to consider our de- posed officers, we being more concerned with our own safety. On December fif- — teenth, being then in latitude forty-four degrees south and longitude thirty-eight west, we picked up a gale from the south-_ west, which by- midnight had hardened ‘into hurricane force. We got the Shanadoah- foc to on. He. 3 port tack under a nuniber two ‘storm n tay Ls t the remark [