I rose one morning early, loathing5 the narrow frizzling confinement6 of my cabin, where the heat of the upper deck dwelt in the atmosphere with a sort of tingling7, and where the wall, thick as the scantling was and cooled besides outside by the wash of the brine, felt to the hand warm as a glass newly rinsed8 in hot water. I went on deck and found myself in a cloudless day. The sun was a few degrees above the horizon, and his wake flowed in a river of dazzling glory to the inverted9 image of the yacht reflected with mirror-like perfection in the clear, pale-blue profound over which she was imperceptibly stealing, fanned by a draught10 so tender that it scarcely lifted the airy space of topgallant-sail whose foot arched like a curve of new moon from one topsail yard-arm to the other.
I had noticed the dim grey outline of what was apparently11 a huge shark off our quarter on the previous night, and went to the rail to see if the beast was still in sight; and I was overhanging the bulwark12, sniffing13 with delight the fresh salt smell that floated up from alongside, scarce warmed as yet by the early sun, and viewing with admiration14 the lovely representation of the yacht’s form in the water, with my own face looking up at me too, as though I lay a drowned man down there, when Finn suddenly called out: ‘A humpish looking craft, your honour; and I’m a lobster15 if I don’t think by the stink16 in the air that her cargo17’s phosphate manure18!’
I sprang erect19, and on turning was greatly astonished to observe a barque of some four or five hundred tons approaching us just off the weather bow, and almost within hail. I instantly crossed the deck to get a better view of her. She was a round-bowed vessel20, deep in the water, with a dirty white band broken by painted ports going the length of her, and she rolled as clumsily upon the light swell21 as if she were full of water. She had apparently lost her foretopgallant-mast, and the head of the topmast showed heavy with its crosstrees over the tall hoist22 of single topsail. A group of men stood on the forecastle viewing us, and now and again a head was thrust over the quarterdeck rail. But she was approaching us almost bow on, and her bulwarks23 being high, there was little to be seen of her decks.
‘Very queer smell,’ said I, tasting a sort of faint acid in the atmosphere, mingled24 with an odour of an earthy, mouldering25 kind, as though a current of air that had crept through some churchyard vault26 had stolen down upon us.
‘Bones or bird-dung, sir; perhaps both. I recognise the smell; there’s nicer perfumes a-going.’
‘Has she signalled you?’
‘Ay, sir; that she wanted to speak, and then she hauled her colours[208] down when she saw my answering pennant27. She’s been in sight since hard upon midnight. Crimp made her out agin the stars, and how we’ve stole together, blessed if I know, for all the air that’s blowed since the middle watch wouldn’t have weight enough to slant28 a butterfly off its course.’
‘What do they want, I wonder?’ said I; ‘rather a novelty for us to be spoken, Finn, seeing that it has always been the other way about. Bless me! how hot it is! Pleasant to be a passenger aboard yonder craft under that sun there, if the aroma30 she breathes is warrant of the character of her cargo.’
A few minutes passed; the barque then shifting her helm slowly drew out, giving us a view of her length. As she did so she hauled up her main course and braced31 aback her fore-yards. This looked like business; for, had her intention been to hail us merely in passing, our joint32 rate of progress was so exceedingly slow as to render any man?uvring, such as heaving to, unnecessary. Finn and I were looking at her, waiting for the yacht to be hailed, when Crimp, who had been in the waist superintending the washing down of the decks—for he was in charge, though the captain had come up at once on hearing that there was a vessel close to us; sour old Crimp, I say, whom I had observed staring with a peculiar33 earnestness at the barque, came aft and said: ‘Ain’t this smell old bones?’
‘Foul34 enough for ’un,’ answered Finn.
‘Dummed,’ cried Crimp, gazing intently with his cross eyes whilst his mat of beard worked slowly to the action of his jaw35 upon a quid as though there were something behind it that wanted to get out, ‘if I don’t believe that there craft’s the “’Liza Robbins.”’
‘Well, and what then?’ demanded Finn.
‘Why, if so, my brother’s her skipper.’
Finn levelled his glass. He took a long look at the figure of a man who was standing36 on the barque’s quarter, and who was manifestly pausing until the vessel should have closed a little more yet to hail us.
‘Is your brother like you, Jacob?’ he asked, bringing his eye from the telescope.
‘Ay, werry image, only that his wision’s straight. We’re twins.’
‘Then there ye are to the life!’ cried Finn, bursting into a laugh and pointing to the barque’s quarterdeck.
Crimp rested the glass on the rail and put his sour face to it. ‘Yes,’ he exclaimed, ‘that’s ’Arry, sure enough,’ and without another word he returned to the waist and went on coolly directing the scrubbing and swabbing of the men.
‘Mr. Monson,’ said Finn, who had taken the glass from Crimp, and extending it to me as he spoke29, ‘just take a view of them figures on the fo’k’sle, sir, will ’ee? There’s three of ’em standing alone close against the cathead. They ain’t blue-jackets, are they?’
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But at that instant we were hailed, and I forgot Finn’s request in listening to what was said.
‘Schooner37 ahoy!’
‘Hallo!’ answered Finn.
‘What schooner is that and where are you bound?’ cried the man on the barque’s quarter-deck in a voice whose sulky rasping note so exactly resembled Jacob Crimp’s when he exerted his lungs, that I observed some of our sailors staring with astonishment38, as though they imagined Muffin had gone to work again.
‘The “Bride” of Southampton on a cruise,’ responded Finn, adding in an aside to me: ‘no use in singing out about the Cape39 of Good Hope, sir.’
There was a brief pause, then Finn bawled40: ‘What ship are you?’
‘The “’Liza Robbins,”’ was the answer, ‘of and for Liverpool from Hitchaboo with a cargo of gewhany.’
‘Thought so,’ exclaimed Finn to me with a snuffle; ‘d’ye smell it now, sir? How they can get men to sign for a woyage with such a cargo beats my going a fishing.’
‘Schooner ahoy!’ now came from the barque again.
‘Hallo?’
‘I’ve got a lady and gent here,’ roared the figure through his hands which he held funnelwise to his mouth, ‘as want to get aboard summat smelling a bit sweeter nor this. They was wrecked42 in a yacht like yourn, and I came across ’em in a open boat five days ago. Will’ee take ’em?’
‘What was the name of the yacht, can you tell me?’ cried Finn.
The man turned his head, evidently interrogating43 another, probably his mate, who stood a little behind him; then bringing his hands to his mouth afresh, he roared out ‘The “Shark”!’
Finn slowly brought his long face to bear upon mine; his figure moving with it as though the whole of him were a piece of mechanism44 warranted to perform that motion but no more. ‘Gracious thunder!’ he exclaimed under his breath and then his jaw fell. I heard the confused humming of the men’s voices forward, a swift flow of excited talk subdued45 into a sort of buzzing by their habits of shipboard discipline. I felt that I was as pale in the face as if I had received some violent shock.
‘The “Shark”!’ I cried in a breathless way; ‘the lady and gentleman then aboard that vessel must be the Colonel and Lady Monson. The yacht probably met with the gale that swept over us and foundered46 in it;’ then pulling myself together with an effort, for amazement47 seemed to have sent all my wits adrift for a moment, I exclaimed, ‘Hail the barque at once, Finn; say that you will be happy to receive the lady and gentleman. Ask the captain to come aboard, or, stay—where is Crimp? Let old Jacob invite his brother. We must act with extreme wariness48. My God, what an astounding49 confrontment!’
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‘Mr. Crimp,’ roared Finn, on a sudden exploding, as it were, out of his state of petrifaction50. Jacob came aft. ‘Jump on that there rail, Mr. Crimp, and tell your brother who ye are and ask him aboard.’
The sour little man climbed on to the bulwarks, and in a voice that was the completest imaginable echo of that in which the fellow aboard the barque had hailed us, he shouted ‘’Arry ahoy!’
The other stood a while staring, dropping his head first on one side, then on the other, in the manner of one who discredits51 his sight and seeks to obtain a clearer view by dodging52 about for a true focus.
‘Why, Jacob,’ he presently sang out, ‘is that you, brother?’
‘Ay, come aboard, will ye, ’Arry?’ answered Crimp, with which he dropped off the rail and trudged53 sourly to the gangway without the least visible expression of surprise or pleasure or emotion of any kind.
Meanwhile I had taken notice of strong manifestations54 of excitement amongst the little group on the forecastle of the barque—I mean the small knot of men to whom Finn had called my attention. The vessels55 lay so near together that postures56 and gestures were easily distinguishable. There could be no doubt now that the fellows had formed a portion of a yacht’s crew. Their dress betokened57 it; they gazed with much probing and thrusting of their heads and elbowing of one another at our men, who lined the forward bulwarks—most of our sailors having turned up—as though seeking for familiar faces. I eagerly looked for signs of the colonel and his companion, but it was still very early; they were doubtless in their cabins, and the crying out of voices from vessel to vessel was so recent that even if the couple had been disturbed by the noise they would not yet have had time to dress themselves and make their appearance on deck.
‘Will you go and report to Sir Wilfrid, sir?’ said Finn.
‘At once,’ I answered. ‘Let old Jacob’s brother have the full story, the whole truth, should he arrive before I return. His sympathies must be enlisted58 on Sir Wilfrid’s side, or there may happen a most worrisome difficulty if the Colonel refuses to leave that barque and should make some splendid offer to the skipper to retain him and her ladyship.’
‘I’ll talk with Jacob whilst his brother’s a-coming, sir,’ said Finn.
I stepped below with a beating heart. I was exceedingly agitated59, could scarce bring my mind to accept the reality of what had happened, and I dreaded60 moreover the effect of the news upon my cousin. The ‘Shark’ foundered!—the couple we were in chase of picked up out of an open boat!—this great, blank, lidless eye of ocean, whose infinite distances I had pointed61 into over and over again to Miss Laura, yielding up the pair that we were in chase of in an encounter bewildering as a surprise and miraculous62 for its unexpectedness!—why I confess I breathed in gasps63 as I thought[211] of it all, making my way, absolutely trembling in my shoes, to Wilfrid’s berth64. I knocked and was told to enter. He had nearly finished dressing65, and looked up from a boot that he was buttoning with a cold, bitter, triumphant66 smile at me.
‘I know,’ he exclaimed in a voice infinitely67 more composed than I could have exerted; ‘this is Monday, Charles.’
It was Monday as he said! I stared stupidly at him for a minute, and then saw how it was that he knew. The window of his port was unscrewed and lay wide open; through it I could see the barque fluctuating in the silver and blue of the atmosphere as she swayed swinging her canvas in and out with every roll. The port made a very funnel41 for the ear as a vehicle of sound, for I could distinctly hear the orders given on board the vessel for lowering a boat; the voice of one of the ‘Shark’s’ men apparently hailing our fellows; the beat of her cloths against the mast; and the recoil68 of the water breaking from her broad channels as she buried her plates to the height almost of those platforms.
‘I am breathless with astonishment,’ said I; ‘but, God be praised, Wilf, I see you mean to confront this business coldly.’
‘The captain of that vessel is coming on board,’ he said, speaking with extraordinary composure, whilst his face, from which the smile had faded, still preserved the light or expression of its mingled triumph and bitterness.
‘He will be here in a minute or two,’ I answered.
‘Is Laura up?’
‘I do not know.’
‘See that she gets the news, Charles, at once. I shall want her on deck. Then return and we will concert a little programme.’
I quitted his cabin, marvelling69 exceedingly at his collectedness. But then I had noticed that his mind steadied in proportion as his attention grew fixed70. This is true of most weak intelligences, I suppose; if you want them to ride you must let go an anchor for them. I was hesitating at Miss Jennings’ door, stretching my ear for the sound of her voice that I might know she was dressing and had her maid with her, when the handle was turned and the maid came out. I inquired if her mistress was rising. She answered ‘Yes.’ ‘Tell her,’ said I, ‘that there is a vessel close to us, and that Colonel Hope-Kennedy and Lady Monson are on board of her. Sir Wilfrid begs that she will make haste, as he desires her presence on deck as soon as possible.’ I then returned to my cousin’s berth, thinking that, though to be sure the news would immensely scare the little girl, it was best that she should have the whole truth at once, and so find time to tauten71 her nerves for what was to come.
As I entered my cousin’s cabin I heard through the open port the sound of the grinding of oars72 betwixt thole pins, and immediately after there rang out a cry of ‘Look out for the end of the line!’ by which I knew that Crimp’s brother was alongside of us. Wilfrid, having buttoned his boots, was now completely dressed. He stood with a hand upon the edge of his bunk73, gazing at the[212] barque, which still hung fair in the blue and gleaming disc of the porthole, showing in that circular frame like a daguerreotype74 with the silvery flashing and fading of light, the shooting prismatic tints75, the shot-silk-like alternations of hues76 that accompanied the floating heave of her by the swell to the sunshine. I picked up a small binocular glass that lay on the table, but could see nothing as yet of Lady Monson or her companion.
‘My wife was always a late riser,’ said Wilfrid, turning to me with a haggard smile and a cold sarcastic77 note in his voice that was steadied, as your ear instinctively78 detected, by the iron resolution of his mood, as the spine79 stiffens80 the form.
‘Had we not better go on deck?’ said I. ‘It might be useful to hear what the master of the barque has to say.’
‘Inch by inch, Charles. There is no hurry. I have my man safe,’ pointing at the vessel. ‘Let us briefly81 debate a course of action—or rather, let me leave myself in your hands. We want no “scene,” as women call it, or as little as possible. There are many grinning, merely curious spectators, and Lady Monson is still my wife. What do you advise?’
‘First of all, my dear Wilfrid, what do you want?’ I exclaimed, rather puzzled and not at all relishing82 the responsibility of offering suggestions. ‘You intend, of course, that Lady Monson shall come on board the “Bride.” But the Colonel?’
‘Oh,’ cried he, sharply and fiercely, ‘I shall want him here too!’
‘Then you don’t mean to separate them?’
‘Yes, I do,’ he answered; ‘as effectually as a bullet can manage it for me.’
‘Ha!’ said I, and I was silent a little and then said: ‘If I were you, I should leave Crimp’s brother to sail away with the rascal83. The separation will be as complete as——’
He silenced me with a passionate84 gesture, but said, nevertheless, calmly, ‘I want them both on board my yacht.’
‘Will they come if they are fetched, think you?’
He walked impatiently to the door. ‘I must plan for myself, I see,’ he exclaimed. He grasped the handle and turned to me with his hand still upon it. ‘I see how it is with you, Charles,’ he said, almost gently; ‘you object to my fighting Colonel Hope-Kennedy.’
‘I do,’ I answered. ‘I object to this scoundrel being furnished with a chance of completing the injury he has done you by shooting you.’
He came to me, put his hand on my shoulder, bent85 his face close to mine, and said in a low voice, ‘Do not fear for me; I shall kill him. As you value my love’—his tone faltered—‘do not come by so much as a hair’s breadth between me and my resolution to take his life. If he will not fight me on board my yacht, he shall fight me on yonder vessel. He is a soldier—a colonel; he will not refuse my challenge. Come, my programme is arranged;[213] we are now wasting time.’ He stepped from his berth and I followed him.
As I turned to ascend86 the companion steps, Wilfrid being in advance of me, mounting with impetuosity, I saw Miss Jennings come out of her berth. I waited for her. Her face was bloodless, yet I was glad to see something like resolution expressed in it.
‘Is it true, Mr. Monson, that my sister is close to us in a ship?’ she asked.
‘She and the Colonel,’ I answered; ‘within eyeshot—that is to say, when they step on deck.’
She put her hand to her breast, and drew several short breaths.
‘Pray take courage,’ I said; ‘it is for your sister to tremble—not you.’
‘How has Wilfrid received this piece of extraordinary news?’ she asked, with a sort of panting in her way of speaking.
‘He is as unmoved, I give you my word, as if he were of cast iron. You shall judge; he has preceded us.’
I took her hand and led her up the ladder. Crimp’s brother had apparently just climbed over the yacht’s side. As I made my appearance he was coming aft from the gangway in company with Finn and surly old Jacob. All three rumbled87 with talk at once as they made, with a deep sea roll, for Wilfrid, who was standing so as to keep the mainmast of the yacht between him and the barque. Miss Jennings started and stopped on seeing the vessel, that had closed us somewhat since she had first hove-to, so that it was almost possible now to distinguish the faces of her people. When my companion moved again she seemed to shrink—almost cower88 indeed, and passed to the right of me as though to hide herself. Then peeping past me at the vessel, she said, ‘I see no lady on board.’
‘Your sister is still below, I expect,’ I answered.
She left me and clasped my cousin’s arm, just saying, ‘Oh, Wilfrid!’ in a tearful, pitiful voice. He gazed down at her and pressed his hand upon hers with a look of dreadful grief entering his face swiftly as a blush suffuses89 a woman’s cheek; but the expression passed quickly. Something he said in a whisper, then lightly freed his arm from her clasp and turned to the master of the barque.
‘Captain Crimp, your honour,’ said Finn, knuckling90 his forehead; ‘Jacob’s brother, Sir Wilfrid.’
Small need to mention that, I thought, for, saving that Jacob was the taller by an inch or two, whilst his brother’s eyes looked straight at you, the twins were the most ludicrous, incomparable match that any lover of the uncommon91 could have desired to see; both of the same sulky cast of countenance92, both of the exact same build, each wearing a light kind of beard similarly coloured.
‘Yes, I’m Jacob’s brother,’ answered Captain Crimp. ‘Heard he was out a yachtin’, but didn’t know the name of the wessel.’
‘I’m very glad to have fallen in with you,’ said Wilfrid,[214] addressing him with a coolness that I saw astonished Finn, whilst Miss Laura glanced at me with an arching of her eyebrows93 as eloquent94 of amazement as if she had spoken her thoughts. ‘I hear that you have a lady and gentleman on board your ship.’
‘Ay,’ answered Captain Crimp bluntly, though somehow one found nothing offensive in his manner of speech; ‘they want to leave me, and,’ added he with a surly grin, ‘I don’t blame ’em. Gewhany ain’t over choice as a smell, ’ticularly down here.’
‘Their names are Colonel Hope-Kennedy and Lady Monson. Is that so?’ demanded Wilfrid, speaking slowly and coldly.
Captain Crimp turned a stupid stare of wonder upon his brother, and then, addressing Wilfrid, exclaimed: ‘Who tould ’ee? Ye’ve got the gent’s name right: the lady’s his missus—same name as t’other’s.’ Wilfrid set his teeth.
I looked towards the barque, but there were no signs of the Colonel or her ladyship yet.
‘The lady is my wife, Captain Crimp,’ said Wilfrid.
‘Ho, indeed,’ responded the man, showing no surprise whatever.
‘She has run away,’ continued my cousin, ‘with the gentleman you have on board your vessel, and we,’ looking round upon us, ‘are here in pursuit of them. We have met with them—very unexpectedly. It is likely when Colonel Hope-Kennedy discovers who we are that he may request you to trim your sails and proceed on your voyage home, and offer you a sum of money to convey Lady Monson and himself away from us. You will not do so!’ he exclaimed with sudden temper, which he instantly subdued, though it darkened his face.
‘I don’t want no trouble,’ answered Captain Crimp. ‘The parties have been a-wanting to get out of my wessel pretty nigh ever since we fell in with them, and here’s their chance. Only,’ he added with a wooden look at his brother, ‘if they don’t choose to quit I can’t chuck ’em overboard.’
‘Oh yes, ’ee can, ’Arry,’ said Jacob. ‘What ye’ve got to do is to tell ’em they must go. No sogerin’ in this business, ’Arry, so stand by. The law ain’t a-going to let ye keep a lawful95 wife away from her wedded96 spouse97 when he tarns98 to and demands her of ye. Better chuck ’em overboard than have the lawyers fall foul of ye, ’Arry.’
This was a long speech for Jacob, who nodded several times at his brother with energy after delivering it.
‘Well, and who wants to keep a wedded woman away from her lawful spouse, as ye calls it, Jacob?’ exclaimed Captain Crimp. ‘What I says is, if the parties refuses to leave I can’t chuck ’em overboard.’
‘See here, Captain,’ said Finn, ‘Jacob’s right, and what you as a sensible man’s got to do is to steer99 clear of quandaries100. His honour’ll be sending for the lady and the gent, and you’ll have to[215] tell ’em to go, as Jacob says. If they refuse—but let ’em refuse first,’ he continued with a look at Wilfrid.
‘I don’t want no trouble,’ said Captain Crimp, ‘and I ain’t going to get in a mess for no man. Do what you think’s proper. What I ask is to be left out of the boiling.’
As he spoke I touched Miss Jennings’ arm. ‘There they are!’ I whispered.
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