Sullivan was apparently2 a trifle older than Hawke, and unusually good-looking. He was smooth-shaven, rather thin-faced, and he exhibited in a marked degree that mingling4 of icy self-possession and electrical alacrity5 that has come to be a sort of typical New York manner. He was very accurately6 dressed, and wore a gold pince-nez. He looked straight at you with a penetrating7 and impenetrable eye; he spoke8 with an unusually distinct articulation9. He seemed to be perpetually regarding the world with a faint smile that was compounded of superiority, indifference10, and cynicism. In reality, his mental attitude was far from either cynicism or indifference, but it took some time to find this out. His general appearance vaguely11 suggested that he might be a very rapidly rising young lawyer, and Elliott discovered later that he had, in fact, been trained for the bar.
“And now, what’s this new scheme you’re working me into?” he inquired.
“We’ll tell you about it after dinner,” said Henninger. “Did you make any progress in that Venezuela claim?”
It appeared that Sullivan had not even been able to get what he called “a look in” for his money, but it did not matter much, for in any event the claim would have been temporarily dropped. They dined that night at the Hotel Martin, and when the waiter had gone away and left them in their private room with coffee and liqueurs, Elliott told Bennett’s story for the second time. Sullivan listened, smoking continual cigarettes, but as the plot developed, the same predatory glimmer12 stole into his eyes that Elliott had seen on the faces of his other companions.
“It’s a big thing, certainly. It may prove a good thing,” he commented coolly, when Elliott had done. “It’s one of the sportiest things, too, that I ever heard of, but it strikes me that the odds14 are all on this mate you speak of. He knows where the wreck15 is, and we don’t.”
“Exactly; and he’s going to tell us. We’re bound to intercept16 him before he gets back to the island, and if we can get ourselves posted all along the East African coast before he arrives, the thing is almost safe. But, until then, a day’s delay may cost us the whole pile. We had a stroke of luck in Nashville, and another in getting berths17 on the first Atlantic steamer, and if the luck only holds—”
“When do we sail?”
“On the New York, at noon to-morrow, for Southampton.”
The next morning was breathlessly full of affairs. There was money to be changed, infinite small purchases to be made, a thousand last arrangements, and they had just time to snatch a hasty mouthful at a quick-lunch counter, and get down to the dock as the first whistle blew. The great wharf18-shed was crowded, swarming19 and bustling21 about the great black wall of the steamer’s side, which appeared to be actually in the shed. The lofty, resonant22 roof echoed with the voices and with the roll of incessant23 express-wagons bringing late baggage. The place was full of the harbour smell of rotting sea-water, and the noise, the movement, the excitement, increased as the last moments arrived and passed.
The decks were finally cleared of the non-passengers, and a dozen men tailed on the gangplank. A swarm20 of tugs25 were nosing about the monster’s bows. The last whistle coughed and roared, and the gap between the side and the wharf suddenly widened.
Elliott leaned over the rail with delight, as she swung out into the river, and presently began to move under her own steam. The sierra outline of New York developed into coherence26, towering and prodigious27, jetting swift breaths of smoke and steam into the dazzling sky. An irradiation of furious vitality28 surrounded it. This was the city of the treasure-finders, of the searchers of easy millions, of the buccaneers. It was the place above all others where the strong is most absolutely the master, and the weak most utterly29 the slave; where the struggle, not so much for existence as for luxury, reaches its most terrific phase, evolving a new and formidable human type. Elliott felt himself of a sudden strangely in harmony with this city which he was leaving. The spoils to the victors—and he was going to be victorious30!
The ship was full, almost to her capacity, and the four gold-seekers were scattered31 about in different staterooms. Elliott’s room had two occupants already, and the sofa was made up for him at night. The saloon tables were crowded on the first day; then it turned cold, with a light, choppy sea and rain that lasted till the Grand Banks were passed, and half of the passengers became invisible. With the promise of fair weather they began to reappear, and on the third day the decks were lined with a double row of steamer-chairs.
During the first days of the voyage Elliott fell into greater intimacy32 with Henninger than with any of the others of the party. It did not take the older and more experienced man to learn all he desired to know about Elliott’s vicissitudes33. Elliott told it without any hesitation34, making a humourous tale of it, and, though Henninger offered no confidences in return, he told Elliott curious adventures, which, if they were true, argued an extraordinary experience of unusual and not always respectable courses of life.
Although he never became autobiographical, Elliott gathered by snatches that he must have been at one time, in some capacity, connected with the British army. Later he had certainly been an officer in the Peruvian army, but his manner of quitting either service did not appear. It was with South and Central America that he appeared to have had most to do. He had mentioned cargoes35 of munitions36 of war run ashore37 by night for revolutionary forces, fusilades of blindfolded38 men against church walls, and more peaceful quests for concessions39 of various sorts, involving a good deal of the peculiarly shady politics that distinguish Spanish America. Henninger drew no morals; he seemed to have taken life very much as he found it, and Elliott suspected that he had been no more scrupulous40 than his antagonists41. At the same time he had a definite though singularly upside down morality of his own, which continually inspired Elliott with astonishment42, sometimes with admiration43, and occasionally with disgust.
There was a good deal of whist played in the smoking-room of an evening, and a little poker44, but with low stakes. It was on the preceding passage of this very ship that a noble English lord had been robbed of four thousand pounds at the latter game, and the incident was remembered. Elliott was no expert at poker, and his friends showed no inclination45 for play, so that, though they were in the smoking-room every evening, it was seldom that any of them touched a card.
On the evening of the fifth day out Elliott was sitting quietly in a corner of the smoking-room with a novel and a cigar. It was nearly eleven o’clock, and the low, luxurious46 room was full of men, and growing very smoky in spite of the open ports. Sullivan had gone to his stateroom; Henninger and Hawke were somewhere about, but Elliott was paying no attention to anything that went on.
Suddenly he became aware of a lowering of the conversation at his end of the room. He glanced up; everybody was looking curiously47 in one direction. In the focus of gaze stood Henninger, engaged in what seemed a violent, but low-toned altercation48 with a short, fat, but extraordinarily49 dignified50 blond little man who had been prominent among the whist players. One of the ship’s officers stood by, looking annoyed and judicial51. Henninger was white to the lips, and his black eyes snapped, though he was saying little in reply to the fat man’s energetic discourse52. No one else approached the group, but every one observed it with interest.
All at once, upon some remark of Henninger’s, the little man hit out with closed fist, but the officer caught his arm. Elliott glanced round and saw Hawke looking on with considerable coolness, but, conceiving it his duty to stand by his friend, he got up and approached the trio.
“Go away, Elliott. This is none of your affair!” said Henninger, sharply.
Elliott retreated, feeling that he had made a fool of himself publicly and gratuitously53. But he was consumed with curiosity as well as anxiety, for it struck him that this might be in some way connected with the wrecked54 gold-ship.
Presently the three men left the cabin together and the buzz of talk broke out again. Elliott caught Hawke’s eye, and beckoned55 him over.
“What was it?” he said, in an undertone.
“I didn’t catch the first of it,” said Hawke. “I believe that little ass24 accused Henninger of being a notorious card-sharper, or something of the sort. The second mate happened to be there, and he heard their stories, and I expect they’ve gone to the captain now.”
The curious quality of Elliott’s regard for Henninger is sufficiently56 indicated by the fact that at this information he was filled simultaneously57 with indignant rage and wonder whether the thing were true. He put the question directly to Hawke, who shrugged58 his shoulders.
“Henninger is absolutely the best poker player I ever saw,” he replied. “He’s better even than Sullivan, and no man can be as good a player as that without being suspected of crookedness59. Of course, I don’t know all Henninger’s adventures, but I’d stake anything that he’s as straight as a string. He’s too thoroughbred a sport.”
The little blond man presently returned to the smoking-room alone, but Henninger did not reappear. Elliott waited for fifteen or twenty minutes, and then went on deck.
The spaces were all deserted60, and the electric lights shone on empty chairs. It was a clear night, and the big funnels61 loomed62 against the sky, rolling out volumes of black smoke. As he walked slowly aft, he saw a man leaning over the quarter, looking down at the boiling wake streaked63 with phosphorescence. It looked like Henninger; drawing nearer, he saw that he was not mistaken.
“How’d it come out, old man?” inquired Elliott, sympathetically. “Hawke and I would have backed you up if you had only let us. It’s an outrage—”
“Will you shut up your infernal mouth—and get away from here!” Henninger interrupted, in a voice of such savage64 and suppressed fury that Elliott was absolutely stupefied for a moment.
Startled and offended, he turned on his heel and walked forward nearly to the bows, and for a moment he was almost as angry as Henninger had been. He leaned over the rail and frowned at the creaming water. Perhaps he had been tactless,—but he could not forgive the ferocious65 rebuff that his sympathy had received. But as he stood there, the cool and calm of the mid-sea night began to work insensibly upon his temper, and he began to take a more lenient66 view of the offence. Glancing aft, he saw that Henninger had vanished. There was no one anywhere in sight but the officer on the bridge and a lookout67 on the forecastle-head; and no sound but the labouring beat of the propellers68.
He remained there for some time, for he heard eight bells struck, and the changing of the watch. Presently a hand touched his shoulder lightly.
“Here, old chap, smoke this,” said Henninger, thrusting a large cigar wrapped in silver foil into his hand. “I was rude to you just now, but you came on me at a bad moment. Forgive me, won’t you?”
“I oughtn’t to have said anything. It wasn’t any of my business, anyway,” said Elliott, throwing away the remains69 of his resentment70, for when Henninger chose to be ingratiating he was able to exercise a singular charm.
“I’m glad that little fool didn’t hit me,” went on Henninger, slowly. “There would have been trouble. He isn’t such a fool, either. His memory is excellent.”
“You don’t mean that—really—” began Elliott, and stopped.
“Elliott, I don’t know whether you’ve been in hard luck often enough and hard enough to get a correct light on what I’m going to tell you. No man knows anything about life, or human nature, or himself, till he’s been up against it,—banged up against it, knocked down and stepped on,—and the knowledge isn’t worth having at the price.
“This was two years ago. I had just come up from Tampico, and I’d been two weeks in a Mexican jail because I wouldn’t pay blackmail71 to the governor’s private secretary. I had just fifty-seven dollars, I remember, when I landed in New Orleans, but I had a good thing up my sleeve, and I went straight up to St. Louis to see some men I knew there and interest them in it. Two of them came back with me to New Orleans. I was to show them the workings of the thing—it doesn’t matter now what it was—and if they liked it, they were to put up the capital.
“We came down the river by boat. There’s a good deal of card-playing on those river boats yet, though nothing to what it used to be, of course, and we all three got into a game, along with a young sport from Memphis, who had been flashing a big roll all over the boat. Now I can play poker a little, and our limit was low, but I hadn’t any luck that day. I couldn’t get anything better than two pairs, and my pile kept going down till it reached pretty near nothing. All the money I had in the world was on that table, and my future, too, for I had to keep my end up with those capitalists. I was a fool to go into the game, but I couldn’t pull out. About that time I happened to feel a long, thin, loose splinter on the under side of the table. I don’t think that I’d have done it but for that, but I took to holding out an ace3 or two, sticking them under that splinter. I was beginning to get my money back, when—I don’t know how it happened—the fellow at my left suspected something, leaned over and reached under the table and pulled out the aces13.
“They don’t shoot for that sort of thing on the river any more, but it was nearly as bad. I got off at the next landing. All the passengers were lined up to hoot72 the detected card-sharper. This fellow on board here was one of them.”
The brief, staccato sentences seemed to burn the speaker’s lips. Elliott could find nothing to say, and there was a strained silence. He could not see Henninger’s face in the dusk, but presently he gently touched his shoulder.
Henninger started nervously73. “Let’s walk about a bit,” he proposed in a more natural voice. “It’s too pleasant to go below.”
They made the circumference74 of the decks two or three times at a vigorous pace, and without a word spoken.
“Oh, I don’t blame them—not a bit!” said Henninger, suddenly. “It’s all a part of the game. We fellows are against the world at large; we don’t give much mercy and we don’t expect any. Only—well, I don’t know, but when I go up against these people who’ve always had plenty of money, who’ve lived all their lives in a warmed house, all their fat, stuffy75 lives, afraid of everything they don’t understand, and understanding damned little, and getting no nearer to life than a cabbage,—when I have to listen to those people talking honour and morality, sometimes it sends me off my head. What do they know of it? They haven’t blood enough for anything worse than a little respectable cheating and lying, and they thank God they’ve always had strength to resist temptation. They don’t know what temptation is. Let ’em get out on the ragged76 edge of things, and get some of the knocks that shuffle77 a man’s moralities up like a pack of cards. Something that they never tried is to come into a strange town on a rough night, stony78 broke, and see the lights shining in the windows, and not know any more than a stray dog where you’re going to fill your belly79 or get out of the rain.
“There are worse things than that, too, for when a man gets down to rock-bottom, he doesn’t have to keep up appearances, and he can drop his dignity temporarily and wait for better days. But when it comes to being broke in a town where you’re known, where you’re trying to put through some business, sleeping at ten-cent hotels and trying to make a square meal out of a banana, and sitting round good hotels for respectability’s sake, and cleaning your collar with a piece of bread,—that’s about as near hell as a man gets in this world, and he comes to feel that he wouldn’t stick at anything to get out of it.”
“I know,” said Elliott, retrospectively.
“Of course, that’s all part of the game, too. If we stuck to the beaten track, there wouldn’t be any of this trouble. But, great heavens! could I settle down at a desk in an office and hope for a raise of ten dollars a month if I was industrious80 and obliging! Or if I went home,—but I’d suffocate81 in about ten days. I’ve got caught in this sporting life, and it’s too late to get out of it, and I couldn’t live without it, anyway. But there’s nothing in it—nothing at all. You’ve got a good profession, Elliott, and I give it to you straight, you’ll be wise to go back and work at it, and let this chasing easy money alone. Hawke’s another case. It makes me sorry to see him. He’s bright; he’s got as cold a nerve as I ever saw, and he’s young enough to amount to something yet, but he’s fooling away his life. I expect he made some kind of a smash at home; I don’t know; he’s as dumb as a clam82 about his affairs,—and so am I generally. As for Sullivan, I don’t care; he’s a fellow that’ll never let anything carry him where he don’t want to go. But if it was any good talking to you and Hawke, I’d tell you to take a fool’s advice and let grafting83 alone.”
Elliott was at first amazed by this outburst, and then profoundly moved. It was the last thing to be expected from Henninger, but his equilibrium84 had been completely upset by the scene in the smoking-room, and he had not yet regained85 it.
“You’re forgetting the Clara McClay. You don’t propose that we give that up, do you?” Elliott remarked.
“I had forgotten it for a moment,” admitted Henninger. “No, we won’t give that up; and I’ll tell you plainly, Elliott, that we’re going to have that bullion86 if we have to cut throats for it. If this mate gets there first I’ll run him down alone, but I’ll have it. This thing seems like a sort of last chance. I’ve been playing in hard luck for a long time, and I’ve had about as much as I can stand, and this will be cash enough to retire on, if we can get it. Elliott, don’t you see,”—gripping his arm,—“that we’ve simply got to get to that wreck first?”
“We’re all just as keen as you are,” said Elliott. “You won’t find us hanging back.”
“Yes, I know. But you’re younger, and it don’t seem to matter so much as it does to me,” Henninger responded in a tone of some depression, and they made several more rounds of the deck without speaking. At last Henninger approached the companion stairs.
“I think I’ll go down to my bunk,” he said. “It strikes me that I’ve been talking a lot of gallery melodrama87 to-night, but that affair in the smoking-room rather got on my nerves. Don’t repeat any of all this to the other boys. I’ve given you a lot of better advice than I was ever able to use myself. Good night.”
He disappeared with a smile, and Elliott went back to the rail to smoke another cigar, filled with a painful mingling of affection and pity for this unrestful spirit. He foresaw what he himself might be like in ten years. Thus far, his memory held nothing worse than misfortune, nothing of dishonour88; but dishonour is apt to be the second stage of misfortune. “Go back to work, and let this chasing easy money alone,” Henninger had said, and he was right. It was the advice that Margaret had given him, and that he had vowed89 to take. But there was still the gold-ship, and Elliott thrilled anew with the irrepressible sense of adventure and romance.
Next morning Henninger had regained his customary equipoise, and Elliott could hardly believe his recollection of last night’s conversation. Henninger gave an account of the accusation90 and of his defence very briefly91 to his friends. The captain, acting92 as arbiter93, had ordered that Henninger should refrain from playing cards for stakes while on board, under penalty of being posted as a sharper. On the other hand, the accuser was warned not to make his story public, as there was no corroborative94 evidence of its truth.
In spite of this caution, some word of the affair spread through the ship, and the rest of the voyage was not pleasant. Henninger found himself an object of suspicion; passengers were shy of speaking to him; no one was openly rude, but the atmosphere was hostile. His three friends stood by him, incurring95 thereby96 a share of the popular animosity, and Henninger came and went in saloon and smoking-room, to all appearances as undisturbed and indifferent as possible. Perhaps no one but Elliott knew how much wrath97 and contempt was hidden under that iron exterior98, but every one of the four was glad when the hawsers99 were looped on the Southampton docks.
It would be two days before the first Castle liner would sail for Cape100 Town, and they went over to London, where the last arrangements were completed. Elliott was to make for Bombay with all speed, and he drew two hundred pounds above the price of his ticket for expenses. He was to report by cable to Henninger at Zanzibar whether he discovered anything or not. Elliott would also be notified in case of developments at the other end, though it was very possible that it might be necessary for the rest to take sudden action without waiting him to rejoin them, and in such event the plunder101 was to be shared alike.
Twenty-four hours later Elliott saw his friends aboard the big steamer at Southampton, amid a crowd of army officers, correspondents, weeping female relatives, Jews, and speculators, who were bound for the seat of the still smouldering war. Elliott himself returned to London, crossed to Paris, took the Orient Express, and was hurried across Europe and the length of Italy to Brindisi, where he caught the mail-steamer touching102 there on her way to Bombay.
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