The patron of the Third Company (there were five companies of pilots at that time, I believe) is the brother-in-law of my friend Solary (Baptistin), a broad-shouldered, deep chested man of forty, with a keen, frank glance which always seeks your eyes.
He greets me by a low, hearty33 “He, l’ami. Comment va?” With his clipped mustache and massive open face, energetic and at the same time placid34 in expression, he is a fine specimen35 of the southerner of the calm type. For there is such a type in which the volatile36 southern passion is transmuted37 into solid force. He is fair, but no one could mistake him for a man of the north even by the dim gleam of the lantern standing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordinary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterranean38 shores, you could not find half a dozen men of his stamp.
Standing by the tiller, he pulls out his watch from under a thick jacket and bends his head over it in the light cast into the boat. Time’s up. His pleasant voice commands, in a quiet undertone, “Larguez.” A suddenly projected arm snatches the lantern off the quay — and, warped39 along by a line at first, then with the regular tug40 of four heavy sweeps in the bow, the big half-decked boat full of men glides42 out of the black, breathless shadow of the fort. The open water of the avant-port glitters under the moon as if sown over with millions of sequins, and the long white break water shines like a thick bar of solid silver. With a quick rattle of blocks and one single silky swish, the sail is filled by a little breeze keen enough to have come straight down from the frozen moon, and the boat, after the clatter of the hauled-in sweeps, seems to stand at rest, surrounded by a mysterious whispering so faint and unearthly that it may be the rustling43 of the brilliant, overpowering moon rays breaking like a rain-shower upon the hard, smooth, shadowless sea.
I may well remember that last night spent with the pilots of the Third Company. I have known the spell of moonlight since, on various seas and coasts — coasts of forests, of rocks, of sand dunes44 — but no magic so perfect in its revelation of unsuspected character, as though one were allowed to look upon the mystic nature of material things. For hours I suppose no word was spoken in that boat. The pilots, seated in two rows facing each other, dozed45, with their arms folded and their chins resting upon their breasts. They displayed a great variety of caps: cloth, wool, leather, peaks, ear-flaps, tassels46, with a picturesque47 round beret or two pulled down over the brows; and one grandfather, with a shaved, bony face and a great beak48 of a nose, had a cloak with a hood49 which made him look in our midst like a cowled monk50 being carried off goodness knows where by that silent company of seamen51 — quiet enough to be dead.
My fingers itched52 for the tiller, and in due course my friend, the patron, surrendered it to me in the same spirit in which the family coachman lets a boy hold the reins53 on an easy bit of road.
There was a great solitude54 around us; the islets ahead, Monte Cristo and the Chateau55 daft in full light, seemed to float toward us — so steady, so imperceptible was the progress of our boat. “Keep her in the furrow56 of the moon,” the patron directed me, in a quiet murmur, sitting down ponderously57 in the stern-sheets and reaching for his pipe.
The pilot station in weather like this was only a mile or two to the westward58 of the islets; and presently, as we approached the spot, the boat we were going to relieve swam into our view suddenly, on her way home, cutting black and sinister59 into the wake of the moon under a sable60 wing, while to them our sail must have been a vision of white and dazzling radiance. Without altering the course a hair’s breadth we slipped by each other within an oar’s length. A drawling, sardonic61 hail came out of her. Instantly, as if by magic, our dozing62 pilots got on their feet in a body. An incredible babel of bantering63 shouts burst out, a jocular, passionate64, voluble chatter65, which lasted till the boats were stern to stern, theirs all bright now, and, with a shining sail to our eyes, we turned all black to their vision, and drew away from them under a sable wing. That extraordinary uproar21 died away almost as suddenly as it had begun; first one had enough of it and sat down, then another, then three or four together; and when all had left off with mutters and growling66 half-laughs the sound of hearty chuckling67 became audible, persistent68, unnoticed. The cowled grandfather was very much entertained somewhere within his hood.
He had not joined in the shouting of jokes, neither had he moved the least bit. He had remained quietly in his place against the foot of the mast. I had been given to understand long before that he had the rating of a second-class able seaman69 (matelot leger) in the fleet which sailed from Toulon for the conquest of Algeria in the year of grace 1830. And, indeed, I had seen and examined one of the buttons of his old brown, patched coat, the only brass70 button of the miscellaneous lot, flat and thin, with the words Equipages de ligne engraved71 on it. That sort of button, I believe, went out with the last of the French Bourbons.
“I preserved it from the time of my navy service,” he explained, nodding rapidly his frail72, vulture-like head. It was not very likely that he had picked up that relic73 in the street. He looked certainly old enough to have fought at Trafalgar — or, at any rate, to have played his little part there as a powder monkey. Shortly after we had been introduced he had informed me in a Franco-Provencal jargon74, mumbling75 tremulously with his toothless jaws76, that when he was a “shaver no higher than that” he had seen the Emperor Napoleon returning from Elba. It was at night, he narrated77 vaguely78, without animation79, at a spot between Frejus and Antibes, in the open country. A big fire had been lit at the side of the cross-roads. The population from several villages had collected there, old and young — down to the very children in arms, because the women had refused to stay at home. Tall soldiers wearing high, hairy caps stood in a circle, facing the people silently, and their stern eyes and big mustaches were enough to make everybody keep at a distance. He, “being an impudent80 little shaver,” wriggled81 out of the crowd, creeping on his hands and knees as near as he dared to the grenadiers’ legs, and peeping through discovered, standing perfectly still in the light of the fire, “a little fat fellow in a three-cornered hat, buttoned up in a long straight coat, with a big, pale face inclined on one shoulder, looking something like a priest. His hands were clasped behind his back. . . . It appears that this was the Emperor,” the ancient commented, with a faint sigh. He was staring from the ground with all his might, when “my poor father,” who had been searching for his boy frantically82 every where, pounced83 upon him and hauled him away by the ear.
The tale seems an authentic84 recollection. He related it to me many times, using the very same words. The grandfather honoured me by a special and somewhat embarrassing predilection85. Extremes touch. He was the oldest member by a long way in that company, and I was, if I may say so, its temporarily adopted baby. He had been a pilot longer than any man in the boat could remember; thirty — forty years. He did not seem certain himself, but it could be found out, he suggested, in the archives of the Pilot-office. He had been pensioned off years before, but he went out from force of habit; and, as my friend the patron of the company once confided86 to me in a whisper, “the old chap did no harm. He was not in the way.” They treated him with rough deference87. One and another would address some insignificant88 remark to him now and again, but nobody really took any notice of what he had to say. He had survived his strength, his usefulness, his very wisdom. He wore long, green, worsted stockings pulled up above the knee over his trousers, a sort of woollen nightcap on his hairless cranium, and wooden clogs89 on his feet. Without his hooded90 cloak he looked like a peasant. Half a dozen hands would be extended to help him on board, but afterward91 he was left pretty much to his own thoughts. Of course he never did any work, except, perhaps, to cast off some rope when hailed, “He, l’Ancien! let go the halyards there, at your hand”— or some such request of an easy kind.
No one took notice in any way of the chuckling within the shadow of the hood. He kept it up for a long time with intense enjoyment92. Obviously he had preserved intact the innocence93 of mind which is easily amused. But when his hilarity94 had exhausted95 itself, he made a professional remark in a self-assertive but quavering voice:
“Can’t expect much work on a night like this.”
No one took it up. It was a mere96 truism. Nothing under canvas could be expected to make a port on such an idle night of dreamy splendour and spiritual stillness. We would have to glide41 idly to and fro, keeping our station within the appointed bearings, and, unless a fresh breeze sprang up with the dawn, we would land before sunrise on a small islet that, within two miles of us, shone like a lump of frozen moonlight, to “break a crust and take a pull at the wine bottle.” I was familiar with the procedure. The stout97 boat emptied of her crowd would nestle her buoyant, capable side against the very rock — such is the perfectly smooth amenity98 of the classic sea when in a gentle mood. The crust broken and the mouthful of wine swallowed — it was literally99 no more than that with this abstemious100 race — the pilots would pass the time stamping their feet on the slabs101 of sea-salted stone and blowing into their nipped fingers. One or two misanthropists would sit apart, perched on boulders102 like manlike sea-fowl of solitary103 habits; the sociably104 disposed would gossip scandalously in little gesticulating knots; and there would be perpetually one or another of my hosts taking aim at the empty horizon with the long, brass tube of the telescope, a heavy, murderous-looking piece of collective property, everlastingly105 changing hands with brandishing106 and levelling movements. Then about noon (it was a short turn of duty — the long turn lasted twenty-four hours) another boatful of pilots would relieve us — and we should steer107 for the old Phoenician port, dominated, watched over from the ridge108 of a dust-gray, arid109 hill by the red-and-white striped pile of the Notre Dame7 de la Garde.
All this came to pass as I had foreseen in the fullness of my very recent experience. But also something not foreseen by me did happen, something which causes me to remember my last outing with the pilots. It was on this occasion that my hand touched, for the first time, the side of an English ship.
No fresh breeze had come with the dawn, only the steady little draught110 got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. I t was while we were all ashore111 on the islet that a steamer was picked up by the telescope, a black speck112 like an insect posed on the hard edge of the offing. She emerged rapidly to her water-line and came on steadily113, a slim hull114 with a long streak115 of smoke slanting116 away from the rising sun. We embarked117 in a hurry, and headed the boat out for our prey118, but we hardly moved three miles an hour.
She was a big, high-class cargo-steamer of a type that is to be met on the sea no more — black hull, with low, white superstructures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fore5; two hands at her enormous wheel — steam steering-gear was not a matter of course in these days — and with them on the bridge three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peak caps — I suppose all her officers. There are ships I have met more than once and known well by sight whose names I have forgotten; but the name of that ship seen once so many years ago in the clear flush of a cold, pale sunrise I have not forgotten. How could I— the first English ship on whose side I ever laid my hand! The name — I read it letter by letter on the bow — was James Westoll. Not very romantic, you will say. The name of a very considerable, well-known, and universally respected North country ship-owner, I believe. James Westoll! What better name could an honourable119 hard-working ship have? To me the very grouping of the letters is alive with the romantic feeling of her reality as I saw her floating motionless and borrowing an ideal grace from the austere120 purity of the light.
We were then very near her and, on a sudden impulse, I volunteered to pull bow in the dinghy which shoved off at once to put the pilot on board while our boat, fanned by the faint air which had attended us all through the night, went on gliding121 gently past the black, glistening122 length of the ship. A few strokes brought us alongside, and it was then that, for the very first time in my life, I heard myself addressed in English — the speech of my secret choice, of my future, of long friendships, of the deepest affections, of hours of toil123 and hours of ease, and of solitary hours, too, of books read, of thoughts pursued, of remembered emotions — of my very dreams! And if (after being thus fashioned by it in that part of me which cannot decay) I dare not claim it aloud as my own, then, at any rate, the speech of my children. Thus small events grow memorable124 by the passage of time. As to the quality of the address itself I cannot say it was very striking. Too short for eloquence125 and devoid126 of all charm of tone, it consisted precisely127 of the three words “Look out there!” growled128 out huskily above my head.
It proceeded from a big fat fellow (he had an obtrusive129, hairy double chin) in a blue woollen shirt and roomy breeches pulled up very high, even to the level of his breastbone, by a pair of braces130 quite exposed to public view. As where he stood there was no bulwark131, but only a rail and stanchions, I was able to take in at a glance the whole of his voluminous person from his feet to the high crown of his soft black hat, which sat like an absurd flanged132 cone133 on his big head. The grotesque134 and massive aspect of that deck hand (I suppose he was that — very likely the lamp-trimmer) surprised me very much. My course of reading, of dreaming, and longing135 for the sea had not prepared me for a sea brother of that sort. I never met again a figure in the least like his except in the illustrations to Mr. W. W. Jacobs’s most entertaining tales of barges136 and coasters; but the inspired talent of Mr. Jacobs for poking137 endless fun at poor, innocent sailors in a prose which, however extravagant138 in its felicitous139 invention, is always artistically140 adjusted to observed truth, was not yet. Perhaps Mr. Jacobs himself was not yet. I fancy that, at most, if he had made his nurse laugh it was about all he had achieved at that early date.
Therefore, I repeat, other disabilities apart, I could not have been prepared for the sight of that husky old porpoise141. The object of his concise142 address was to call my attention to a rope which he incontinently flung down for me to catch. I caught it, though it was not really necessary, the ship having no way on her by that time. Then everything went on very swiftly. The dinghy came with a slight bump against the steamer’s side; the pilot, grabbing for the rope ladder, had scrambled143 half-way up before I knew that our task of boarding was done; the harsh, muffled clanging of the engine-room telegraph struck my ear through the iron plate; my companion in the dinghy was urging me to “shove off — push hard”; and when I bore against the smooth flank of the first English ship I ever touched in my life, I felt it already throbbing144 under my open palm.
Her head swung a little to the west, pointing toward the miniature lighthouse of the Jolliette breakwater, far away there, hardly distinguishable against the land. The dinghy danced a squashy, splashy jig145 in the wash of the wake; and, turning in my seat, I followed the James Westoll with my eyes. Before she had gone in a quarter of a mile she hoisted146 her flag, as the harbour regulations prescribe for arriving and departing ships. I saw it suddenly flicker147 and stream out on the flag staff. The Red Ensign! In the pellucid148, colourless atmosphere bathing the drab and gray masses of that southern land, the livid islets, the sea of pale, glassy blue under the pale, glassy sky of that cold sunrise, it was, as far as the eye could reach, the only spot of ardent149 colour — flame-like, intense, and presently as minute as the tiny red spark the concentrated reflection of a great fire kindles150 in the clear heart of a globe of crystal. The Red Ensign — the symbolic151, protecting, warm bit of bunting flung wide upon the seas, and destined152 for so many years to be the only roof over my head.
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enjoyment
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