Beadle's Dime Novels No. 94: The Mad Skipper — page 70: what you’re looking at

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79 . THE MAD SKIPPER. — customer, doctor ; but we haven’t any need of your help now seeing as every thing is over.” “Ts it possible! This is really too bad! Couldn’t we— , vahem—couldn’t ‘we make a dash upon them mow, and carry “every thing by storm ?” “There's nothin’ to carry,” answered the old sailor. “ But with all respect to you, doctor, I think you'll find the makin’ of pills more to your taste than any thing of the fillibustering kind.” “You are mistaken. My blood fairly boils when I see my friends in difficulty ; and—and—I feel at such times as if I could accomplish wonders. Iam familiar with death; and I may add that I have, on many different occasions, driven the grim fiend away from the threshold of my patients,” He went on to cite a few cases, and while he was thus oc- cupied Frank glided to the side of Lilian, who now appeared upon tle quarter-deck. “T am so glad,” said she, “that the mate was not allowed to flog your old shipmate, and that the Kanakas did not hurt you.” “They are a rascally set,” muttered Frank. ' “ I wish there were a few more white men in the ship.” “Jt is better to forget what is past. I don’t think you will , be molested again. Onoolo always seems ready to obey the captain, and he must perceive by this time that the madman objects to his meddling with the whites.” “Ay, ay; and he is a strange fellow, this captain of ours.” “JT sometimes hear him raving in his room at midnight, in &@ way that fairly frightens me.” * You should not feel alarmed ; he is harmless.” ‘And yet to hear him go on, you would think he mcditated sinking the ship.” Frank smiled. ‘There is no danger of his doing that.” “But suppose he should take a notion to do so. What could we do to prevent him. Onoolo, backed by his dusky shipmates, would destroy the vessel in a moment if the captain should order him to do-it.” “T hardly think he would go so far as that.” Lilian shook her head. : CoOmicoooks.Comy