For some days, the number of intoxicated4 sailors collared and brought up to the mast by the master-at-arms, to be reported to the deck-officers—previous to a flogging at the gangway—had, in the last degree, excited the surprise and vexation of the Captain and senior officers. So strict were the Captain's regulations concerning the suppression of grog-smuggling, and so particular had he been in charging the matter upon all the Lieutenants5, and every understrapper official in the frigate7, that he was wholly at a loss how so large a quantity of spirits could have been spirited into the ship, in the face of all these checks, guards, and precautions.
Still additional steps were adopted to detect the smugglers; and Bland8, the master-at-arms, together with his corporals, were publicly harangued9 at the mast by the Captain in person, and charged to exert their best powers in suppressing the traffic. Crowds were present at the time, and saw the master-at-arms touch his cap in obsequious10 homage11, as he solemnly assured the Captain that he would still continue to do his best; as, indeed, he said he had always done. He concluded with a pious12 ejaculation expressive13 of his personal abhorrence14 of smuggling and drunkenness, and his fixed15 resolution, so help him Heaven, to spend his last wink16 in sitting up by night, to spy out all deeds of darkness.
"I do not doubt you, master-at-arms," returned the Captain; "now go to your duty." This master-at-arms was a favourite of the Captain's.
The next morning, before breakfast, when the market-boat came off (that is, one of the ship's boats regularly deputed to bring off the daily fresh provisions for the officers)—when this boat came off, the master-at-arms, as usual, after carefully examining both her and her crew, reported them to the deck-officer to be free from suspicion. The provisions were then hoisted18 out, and among them came a good-sized wooden box, addressed to "Mr. —— Purser of the United States ship Neversink." Of course, any private matter of this sort, destined19 for a gentleman of the ward-room, was sacred from examination, and the master-at-arms commanded one of his corporals to carry it down into the Purser's state-room. But recent occurrences had sharpened the vigilance of the deck-officer to an unwonted degree, and seeing the box going down the hatchway, he demanded what that was, and whom it was for.
"Let it remain on deck," said the Lieutenant6. "Mr. Montgomery!" calling a midshipman, "ask the Purser whether there is any box coming off for him this morning."
"Ay, ay, sir," said the middy, touching his cap.
"Very good, then; Mr. Montgomery, have that box put into the 'brig,' with strict orders to the sentry22 not to suffer any one to touch it."
"Had I not better take it down into my mess, sir, till the Purser comes off?" said the master-at-arms, deferentially23.
"I have given my orders, sir!" said the Lieutenant, turning away.
When the Purser came on board, it turned out that he knew nothing at all about the box. He had never so much as heard of it in his life. So it was again brought up before the deck-officer, who immediately summoned the master-at-arms.
"Break open that box!"
"Certainly, sir!" said the master-at-arms; and, wrenching24 off the cover, twenty-five brown jugs25 like a litter of twenty-five brown pigs, were found snugly26 nestled in a bed of straw.
"The smugglers are at work, sir," said the master-at-arms, looking up.
"Uncork and taste it," said the officer.
The master-at-arms did so; and, smacking27 his lips after a puzzled fashion, was a little doubtful whether it was American whisky or Holland gin; but he said he was not used to liquor.
"Brandy; I know it by the smell," said the officer; "return the box to the brig."
"Ay, ay, sir," said the master-at-arms, redoubling his activity.
The affair was at once reported to the Captain, who, incensed28 at the audacity29 of the thing, adopted every plan to detect the guilty parties. Inquiries31 were made ashore; but by whom the box had been brought down to the market-boat there was no finding out. Here the matter rested for a time.
Some days after, one of the boys of the mizzen-top was flogged for drunkenness, and, while suspended in agony at the gratings, was made to reveal from whom he had procured32 his spirits. The man was called, and turned out to be an old superannuated34 marine35, one Scriggs, who did the cooking for the marine-sergeants and masters-at-arms' mess. This marine was one of the most villainous-looking fellows in the ship, with a squinting37, pick-lock, gray eye, and hang-dog gallows38 gait. How such a most unmartial vagabond had insinuated39 himself into the honourable40 marine corps41 was a perfect mystery. He had always been noted42 for his personal uncleanliness, and among all hands, fore17 and aft, had the reputation of being a notorious old miser43, who denied himself the few comforts, and many of the common necessaries of a man-of-war life.
Seeing no escape, Scriggs fell on his knees before the Captain, and confessed the charge of the boy. Observing the fellow to be in an agony of fear at the sight of the boat-swain's mates and their lashes44, and all the striking parade of public punishment, the Captain must have thought this a good opportunity for completely pumping him of all his secrets. This terrified marine was at length forced to reveal his having been for some time an accomplice45 in a complicated system of underhand villainy, the head of which was no less a personage than the indefatigable46 chief of police, the master-at-arms himself. It appeared that this official had his confidential47 agents ashore, who supplied him with spirits, and in various boxes, packages, and bundles—addressed to the Purser and others—brought them down to the frigate's boats at the landing. Ordinarily, the appearance of these things for the Purser and other ward-room gentlemen occasioned no surprise; for almost every day some bundle or other is coming off for them, especially for the Purser; and, as the master-at-arms was always present on these occasions, it was an easy matter for him to hurry the smuggled48 liquor out of sight, and, under pretence49 of carrying the box or bundle down to the Purser's room, hide it away upon his own premises50.
The miserly marine, Scriggs, with the pick-lock eye, was the man who clandestinely51 sold the spirits to the sailors, thus completely keeping the master-at-arms in the background. The liquor sold at the most exorbitant52 prices; at one time reaching twelve dollars the bottle in cash, and thirty dollars a bottle in orders upon the Purser, to be honored upon the frigate's arrival home. It may seem incredible that such prices should have been given by the sailors; but when some man-of-war's-men crave53 liquor, and it is hard to procure33, they would almost barter54 ten years of their life-time for but one solitary55 "tot" if they could.
The sailors who became intoxicated with the liquor thus smuggled on board by the master-at-arms, were, in almost numberless instances, officially seized by that functionary56 and scourged57 at the gangway. In a previous place it has been shown how conspicuous58 a part the master-at-arms enacts59 at this scene.
The ample profits of this iniquitous60 business were divided, between all the parties concerned in it; Scriggs, the marine, coming in for one third. His cook's mess-chest being brought on deck, four canvas bags of silver were found in it, amounting to a sum something short of as many hundred dollars.
The guilty parties were scourged, double-ironed, and for several weeks were confined in the "brig" under a sentry; all but the master-at-arms, who was merely cashiered and imprisoned61 for a time; with bracelets62 at his wrists. Upon being liberated63, he was turned adrift among the ship's company; and by way of disgracing him still more, was thrust into the waist, the most inglorious division of the ship.
Upon going to dinner one day, I found him soberly seated at my own mess; and at first I could not but feel some very serious scruples64 about dining with him. Nevertheless, he was a man to study and digest; so, upon a little reflection; I was not displeased65 at his presence. It amazed me, however, that he had wormed himself into the mess, since so many of the other messes had declined the honour, until at last, I ascertained66 that he had induced a mess-mate of ours, a distant relation of his, to prevail upon the cook to admit him.
Now it would not have answered for hardly any other mess in the ship to have received this man among them, for it would have torn a huge rent in their reputation; but our mess, A. No. 1—the Forty-two-pounder Club—was composed of so fine a set of fellows; so many captains of tops, and quarter-masters—men of undeniable mark on board ship—of long-established standing67 and consideration on the gun-deck; that, with impunity68, we could do so many equivocal things, utterly69 inadmissible for messes of inferior pretension70. Besides, though we all abhorred71 the monster of Sin itself, yet, from our social superiority, highly rarified education in our lofty top, and large and liberal sweep of the aggregate72 of things, we were in a good degree free from those useless, personal prejudices, and galling73 hatreds74 against conspicuous sinners, not Sin—which so widely prevail among men of warped75 understandings and unchristian and uncharitable hearts. No; the superstitions76 and dogmas concerning Sin had not laid their withering77 maxims78 upon our hearts. We perceived how that evil was but good disguised, and a knave80 a saint in his way; how that in other planets, perhaps, what we deem wrong, may there be deemed right; even as some substances, without undergoing any mutations in themselves utterly change their colour, according to the light thrown upon them. We perceived that the anticipated millennium81 must have begun upon the morning the first words were created; and that, taken all in all, our man-of-war world itself was as eligible82 a round-sterned craft as any to be found in the Milky83 Way. And we fancied that though some of us, of the gun-deck, were at times condemned84 to sufferings and blights85, and all manner of tribulation86 and anguish87, yet, no doubt, it was only our misapprehension of these things that made us take them for woeful pains instead of the most agreeable pleasures. I have dreamed of a sphere, says Pinzella, where to break a man on the wheel is held the most exquisite88 of delights you can confer upon him; where for one gentleman in any way to vanquish89 another is accounted an everlasting90 dishonour91; where to tumble one into a pit after death, and then throw cold clods upon his upturned face, is a species of contumely, only inflicted92 upon the most notorious criminals.
But whatever we mess-mates thought, in whatever circumstances we found ourselves, we never forgot that our frigate, had as it was, was homeward-bound. Such, at least, were our reveries at times, though sorely jarred, now and then, by events that took our philosophy aback. For after all, philosophy—that is, the best wisdom that has ever in any way been revealed to our man-of-war world—is but a slough94 and a mire95, with a few tufts of good footing here and there.
But there was one man in the mess who would have naught96 to do with our philosophy—a churlish, ill-tempered, unphilosophical, superstitious97 old bear of a quarter-gunner; a believer in Tophet, for which he was accordingly preparing himself. Priming was his name; but methinks I have spoken of him before.
Besides, this Bland, the master-at-arms, was no vulgar, dirty knave. In him—to modify Burke's phrase—vice seemed, but only seemed, to lose half its seeming evil by losing all its apparent grossness. He was a neat and gentlemanly villain36, and broke his biscuit with a dainty hand. There was a fine polish about his whole person, and a pliant98, insinuating99 style in his conversation, that was, socially, quite irresistible100. Save my noble captain, Jack101 Chase, he proved himself the most entertaining, I had almost said the most companionable man in the mess. Nothing but his mouth, that was somewhat small, Moorish-arched, and wickedly delicate, and his snaky, black eye, that at times shone like a dark-lantern in a jeweller-shop at midnight, betokened102 the accomplished103 scoundrel within. But in his conversation there was no trace of evil; nothing equivocal; he studiously shunned104 an indelicacy, never swore, and chiefly abounded105 in passing puns and witticisms106, varied107 with humorous contrasts between ship and shore life, and many agreeable and racy anecdotes108, very tastefully narrated109. In short—in a merely psychological point of view, at least—he was a charming blackleg. Ashore, such a man might have been an irreproachable110 mercantile swindler, circulating in polite society.
But he was still more than this. Indeed, I claim for this master-at-arms a lofty and honourable niche111 in the Newgate Calendar of history. His intrepidity112, coolness, and wonderful self-possession in calmly resigning himself to a fate that thrust him from an office in which he had tyrannised over five hundred mortals, many of whom hated and loathed113 him, passed all belief; his intrepidity, I say, in now fearlessly gliding114 among them, like a disarmed115 swordfish among ferocious116 white-sharks; this, surely, bespoke117 no ordinary man. While in office, even, his life had often been secretly attempted by the seamen119 whom he had brought to the gangway. Of dark nights they had dropped shot down the hatchways, destined "to damage his pepper-box," as they phrased it; they had made ropes with a hangman's noose120 at the end and tried to lasso him in dark corners. And now he was adrift among them, under notorious circumstances of superlative villainy, at last dragged to light; and yet he blandly121 smiled, politely offered his cigar-holder to a perfect stranger, and laughed and chatted to right and left, as if springy, buoyant, and elastic122, with an angelic conscience, and sure of kind friends wherever he went, both in this life and the life to come.
While he was lying ironed in the "brig," gangs of the men were sometimes overheard whispering about the terrible reception they would give him when he should be set at large. Nevertheless, when liberated, they seemed confounded by his erect123 and cordial assurance, his gentlemanly sociability124 and fearless companionableness. From being an implacable policeman, vigilant125, cruel, and remorseless in his office, however polished in his phrases, he was now become a disinterested126, sauntering man of leisure, winking127 at all improprieties, and ready to laugh and make merry with any one. Still, at first, the men gave him a wide berth128, and returned scowls129 for his smiles; but who can forever resist the very Devil himself, when he comes in the guise79 of a gentleman, free, fine, and frank? Though Goethe's pious Margaret hates the Devil in his horns and harpooner's tail, yet she smiles and nods to the engaging fiend in the persuasive,winning, oily, wholly harmless Mephistopheles. But, however it was, I, for one, regarded this master-at-arms with mixed feelings of detestation, pity, admiration130, and something op-posed to enmity. I could not but abominate131 him when I thought of his conduct; but I pitied the continual gnawing132 which, under all his deftly-donned disguises, I saw lying at the bottom of his soul. I admired his heroism133 in sustaining himself so well under such reverses. And when I thought how arbitrary the Articles of War are in defining a man-of-war villain; how much undetected guilt30 might be sheltered by the aristocratic awning134 of our quarter-deck; how many florid pursers, ornaments135 of the ward-room, had been legally protected in defrauding136 the people, I could not but say to myself, Well, after all, though this man is a most wicked one indeed, yet is he even more luckless than depraved.
Besides, a studied observation of Bland convinced me that he was an organic and irreclaimable scoundrel, who did wicked deeds as the cattle browse137 the herbage, because wicked deeds seemed the legitimate138 operation of his whole infernal organisation139. Phrenologically, he was without a soul. Is it to be wondered at, that the devils are irreligious? What, then, thought I, who is to blame in this matter? For one, I will not take the Day of Judgment140 upon me by authoritatively141 pronouncing upon the essential criminality of any man-of-war's-man; and Christianity has taught me that, at the last day, man-of-war's-men will not be judged by the Articles of War, nor by the United States Statutes142 at Large, but by immutable143 laws, ineffably144 beyond the comprehension of the honourable Board of Commodores and Navy Commissioners145. But though I will stand by even a man-of-war thief, and defend him from being seized up at the gangway, if I can—remembering that my Saviour146 once hung between two thieves, promising147 one life-eternal—yet I would not, after the plain conviction of a villain, again let him entirely148 loose to prey149 upon honest seamen, fore and aft all three decks. But this did Captain Claret; and though the thing may not perhaps be credited, nevertheless, here it shall be recorded.
After the master-at-arms had been adrift among the ship's company for several weeks, and we were within a few days' sail of home, he was summoned to the mast, and publicly reinstated in his office as the ship's chief of police. Perhaps Captain Claret had read the Memoirs150 of Vidocq, and believed in the old saying, set a rogue151 to catch a rogue. Or, perhaps, he was a man of very tender feelings, highly susceptible152 to the soft emotions of gratitude153, and could not bear to leave in disgrace a person who, out of the generosity154 of his heart, had, about a year previous, presented him with a rare snuff-box, fabricated from a sperm-whale's tooth, with a curious silver hinge, and cunningly wrought155 in the shape of a whale; also a splendid gold-mounted cane156, of a costly157 Brazilian wood, with a gold plate, bearing the Captain's name and rank in the service, the place and time of his birth, and with a vacancy158 underneath—no doubt providentially left for his heirs to record his decease.
Certain it was that, some months previous to the master-at-arms' disgrace, he had presented these articles to the Captain, with his best love and compliments; and the Captain had received them, and seldom went ashore without the cane, and never took snuff but out of that box. With some Captains, a sense of propriety159 might have induced them to return these presents, when the generous donor160 had proved himself unworthy of having them retained; but it was not Captain Claret who would inflict93 such a cutting wound upon any officer's sensibilities, though long-established naval161 customs had habituated him to scourging162 the people upon an emergency.
Now had Captain Claret deemed himself constitutionally bound to decline all presents from his subordinates, the sense of gratitude would not have operated to the prejudice of justice. And, as some of the subordinates of a man-of-war captain are apt to invoke163 his good wishes and mollify his conscience by making him friendly gifts, it would perhaps have been an excellent thing for him to adopt the plan pursued by the President of the United States, when he received a present of lions and Arabian chargers from the Sultan of Muscat. Being forbidden by his sovereign lords and masters, the imperial people, to accept of any gifts from foreign powers, the President sent them to an auctioneer, and the proceeds were deposited in the Treasury164. In the same manner, when Captain Claret received his snuff-box and cane, he might have accepted them very kindly165, and then sold them off to the highest bidder166, perhaps to the donor himself, who in that case would never have tempted118 him again.
Upon his return home, Bland was paid off for his full term, not deducting167 the period of his suspension. He again entered the service in his old capacity.
As no further allusion168 will be made to this affair, it may as well be stated now that, for the very brief period elapsing between his restoration and being paid off in port by the Purser, the master-at-arms conducted himself with infinite discretion169, artfully steering170 between any relaxation171 of discipline—which would have awakened172 the displeasure of the officers—and any unwise severity—which would have revived, in tenfold force, all the old grudges173 of the seamen under his command.
Never did he show so much talent and tact174 as when vibrating in this his most delicate predicament; and plenty of cause was there for the exercise of his cunningest abilities; for, upon the discharge of our man-of-war's-men at home, should he then be held by them as an enemy, as free and independent citizens they would waylay175 him in the public streets, and take purple vengeance176 for all his iniquities177, past, present, and possible in the future. More than once a master-at-arms ashore has been seized by night by an exasperated178 crew, and served as Origen served himself, or as his enemies served Abelard.
But though, under extreme provocation179, the people of a man-of-war have been guilty of the maddest vengeance, yet, at other times, they are very placable and milky-hearted, even to those who may have outrageously180 abused them; many things in point might be related, but I forbear.
This account of the master-at-arms cannot better be concluded than by denominating him, in the vivid language of the Captain of the Fore-top, as "the two ends and middle of the thrice-laid strand181 of a bloody182 rascal," which was intended for a terse183, well-knit, and all-comprehensive assertion, without omission184 or reservation. It was also asserted that, had Tophet itself been raked with a fine-tooth comb, such another ineffable185 villain could not by any possibility have been caught.
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waylay
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provocation
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