“He isn’t aboard,” snarled13 the mate, “an’ not likely to be to-night. What might your business be?”
“Well, you see—the fact is—I thought—that is,” I blundered, getting red in the face as I saw a sarcastic14 grin curdling15 the mate’s face. “I—I thought you wanted a second mate, an’ I——”
“Oh, why the devil didn’t you say so,’thout gay-huppin’ about it like that. I begun ter think you was some beach-comber tryin’ on a new bluff16. Come an’ have a drink.”
Greatly relieved I followed him into the saloon, which was almost as gorgeous as a yacht’s, carpets, and mirrors, and velvet17 settees, piano and silver-plated metal work till you couldn’t rest. A gliding18 Hindoo came salaaming19 along with a bottle and glasses and some ice in a bowl at a word from the mate, and solemnly, as if pouring a libation, we partook of refreshment20. Then, offering me a Trichie, the mate began to cross-examine me. But by this time I had got back my self-possession, and I soon satisfied him that I shouldn’t make half a bad shipmate. I happened to have sailed with an old skipper of his, I knew two or three fellows that he did, or at least I thought I knew them, and before half an hour had passed we were on quite confidential22 terms. No, not quite; for two or three times I noticed that he checked himself, just when he was on the point of telling me something,129 although he let drop a few hints that were totally unintelligible23 to me. At last he said—
“You might as well stay to supper an’ keep me company, unless you’ve got to get back anywhere.”
“Anywhere’s just the right word, Mr. Martin,” I broke in; “anywhere but ashore24 again in this God-forsaken place. If you’d been ashore here for six weeks, looking for a pierhead jump as I have, you’d think it was heaven to get aboard a ship again. It’d be a mighty25 important engagement that ’ud take you up town again.”
“All right, my boy. Hullo, what do you want?” to the suppliant26 steward, who stood in a devotional attitude awaiting permission to speak.
“Dinghy-wallah, sab, waitin’ for speaky gentyman, sab.”
I went cold all over. That infernal coolie was after me for his fare, and I hadn’t a pice. I’d forgotten all about him. I did the only thing possible, owned up to the mate that I had a southerly wind in my pockets, and he came to the rescue at once, paying the dinghy-wallah a quarter of what he asked (two rupees), and starting him off. Then we sat down to a sumptuous27 supper, such as I had not tasted for many months, for I came out before the mast, and the grub in the Sailors Home (where I had been staying) was pretty bad. Over the pleasant meal Mr. Martin thawed28 out completely, and at last, in a burst of confidence, he said—
“Our ole man’s scientific, Mr. Roper.”
As he looked at me like a man who has just divulged130 some tremendous secret, I was more than a little puzzled what to say in reply, so I looked deeply interested, and murmured, “Indeed.”
“Indeed, yes,” growled29 the mate; “but I’ll bet you a month’s wages you won’t say ‘indeed’ like that when we’ve ben to sea a few days. I’ll tell you what it is, I’ve been with some rum pups of skippers in my time, but this one scoops30 the pot. He’s a good enough sailor man, too. But as fer his condemn31 science—well, he thinks he’s the whole Royle Serciety an’ Trinity House biled down into one, an’ I’m damfee knows enough to come in when it rains. He’s just worryin me bald-headed, that’s what he is. Why, if it wasn’t fer the good hash and bein’ able to do pretty much as I mind to with the ship, I’d a ben a jibbin mainyac ’fore21 now, I’m dead shore o’ that. Looky here,” and he sprang up and flung a state-room door wide open, “djever see anythin’ like that outen a mewseeum?”
I stared in utter amazement32 at a most extraordinary collection of queer looking instruments, models, retorts, crucibles33, and specimen34 glasses, turning round after completing my scrutiny35, and gazing into the mate’s face without speaking.
Seeing that I was expected to make some sort of a reply, I said, with a cheerful air—
“’Looks as if the skipper was no end of a scientific pot, I must confess; but, after all, Mr. Martin, it’s a harmless fad37 enough, isn’t it?”
“Harmless! Well, of all the—— Good heavens,131 man, you hain’t the least idea—but, there, what’s the use er talkin’. Better letcher wait ’n see fer yerself. Come on up onter the poop ’n git a whiff er fresh Calcutta mixtcher, dreadful refreshin’, ain’t it?”
A long confab succeeded to the accompaniment of many cigars and sundry39 pegs40, but not another word about the skipper and his hobbies did the mate let slip. No; we discussed, as housewives are said to do when they meet, the shortcomings of those over whom we were put in authority, compared notes as to the merits and demerits of skippers we had served under, and generally sampled the gamut41 of seafaring causeries, until, with my head buzzing like a mosquito in a bottle, I gave the mate good-night, and retired42 to my bunk43 in an enviable state of satisfaction at my good fortune. Next morning I was up at coffee-time, and while sitting on the after-hatch coamings enjoying the enlivening drink and chatting with the mate, a most unearthly howl fairly made my whiskers bristle44. I looked at Mr. Martin, whose face wore a sarcastic grin, but never a word spake he. Another nerve-tearing yell resounded45, starting me to my feet, while I exclaimed—
“Whatever is it, Mr. Martin? I’ve never heard such a devilish noise in my life.”
“Oh, it’s only some o’ the ole man’s harmless fads46 he’s a exercisin’. You’ll git used ter them chunes presently.”
He was going to say something else, but just then the steward emerged from the saloon—that is to say, he shot out as if he had been fired from a balista.132 When I saw him a few minutes before he was a suave48 olive-complexioned Hindoo, cat-like in his neatness, and snowy in his muslin rig. Now he was a ghastly apparition49, with streaming scalp-lock and glaring eyeballs, his face a cabbage-water green, and his lank50 body as bare as a newly-scalded pig. Apparently51 incapable52 of flight, he crouched53 where he fell, salaaming with trembling hands, and chattering54 almost monkey-like. While the mate and I stood silently regarding him, and indignation at the poor wretch’s plight55 was rapidly ousting56 my alarm at the manner of his appearance, a mild and benevolent57 looking man of middle-age dressed in pyjamas58 appeared at the saloon door.
“Good morning, Mr. Martin,” said the skipper, for it was himself, “did you see where that heathen landed?”
“Oh yes, sir,” drawled the mate, “’eer ’e is, what’s left ov ’im.”
“Ah,” replied the skipper, with a placid59 smile, “he’s a bit startled I see. He trod on the plate of my new battery, and got a slight shock, I think. But where’s his close?”
“The Lord only knows,” piously60 ejaculated the mate. “Looks ter me ’sif he’d ben shot clean out ov ’em, puggree an’ all.”
By this time the luckless steward, finding, I suppose, that he had not reached Jehannum yet, began to pull himself together, and, doubtless ashamed of his being all face in the presence of the all-powerful sahibs, writhed61 his way worm-like towards the other door of the saloon, and disappeared within, the skipper regarding133 him meanwhile with gentle interest as if he were a crawling babe. Then turning his attention to me, the old man courteously62 inquired my business, and finding that I suited him, engaged me there and then as second mate.
During the short stay we made in port after my joining, nothing further occurred to change the opinion I had already formed that I was in a very comfortable ship. The fellows forward seemed fairly well contented63 and willing. The food both fore and aft was wonderfully good, and so was the cooking, for a marvel65. But that was because we had a Madrassee cook who had served an arduous66 apprenticeship67 in P. and O. boats, from which excellent service he had been driven by some amiable68 inability to comprehend the laws of meum and tuum. Here there was no chance for him to steal, and every inducement for him to earn a good name by pleasing his many masters. The result was singularly happy for all of us. The foremast hands were fairly divided into Britons and Scandinavians, all good seamen69 and quiet, well-behaved men. One thing, however, was noticeable, they all seemed nervously70 anxious to avoid the after part of the ship as much as possible. All seamen before the mast have an inbred sense of reverence71 for the quarter-deck, walking delicately thereon, and studiously keeping to the lee-side, unless compelled by duty to go to windward. But in the Ranee, whenever a man came aft for any purpose whatever, his movements were much like those of a man visiting a menagerie for the first time alone, and morbidly72 suspicious that some of the134 cage doors were unfastened. This behaviour was highly amusing to me, for I had never seen anything like it before, and I couldn’t help wondering how the helmsman would hang out a trick at the wheel when we got to sea.
All preparations complete, we unmoored, and in tow of the Court Hey proceeded majestically74 down the Hooghly, waking all the echoes and scaring the numberless pigeons of the King of Oude’s palace with the exultant75 strains of “Sally Brown.” One of those majestic73 creatures, the Calcutta pilots, paced the poop in awful state, alone, the skipper being nowhere visible. Presently, my lord the pilot, feeling slightly fatigued76, I suppose, threw himself into the old man’s favourite chair, an elaborately cushioned affair of peculiar77 shape and almost as long as a sofa. No sooner had he done so than, with a most amazing movement, the whole fabric78 changed its shape, and became one of the most bewildering entanglements79 conceivable, gripping the astounded80 pilot in so many places at once that he was in imminent81 danger of being throttled82. I rushed to his assistance, and exerted all my strength to set him free, but my energetic efforts only seemed to hamper83 him more, and fearing lest I should break him all to pieces, I rushed below for the skipper. That gentleman was busy in his laboratory, making carburetted hydrogen, I should judge, from the “feel of the smell,” as the Scotch84 say, but in answer to my agitated85 call he emerged, serene86 and bland87, to inquire my business. Faith, I could hardly tell him, what with the reek88, my haste, and the anxiety I felt. Somehow I managed to135 convey to him that the pilot was being done to death in his chair, and as I did so I noticed (or thought I did) a momentary89 gleam of satisfaction in his starboard eye. But he mounted the companion, and gliding to the spot where the unhappy man, voiceless and black in the face, was struggling, he stooped, touched a spring, and that infernal chair fell out flat like a board. I stooped to assist the victim, but, unluckily for me, he sprang to his feet at the same moment, and his head catching90 me under the chin, I had urgent business of my own to attend to for some little time. When I got quite well again, I heard conversation. In fact I might almost say the coolies in the jungle heard it. The pilot was expressing his opinion upon his recent experience, and from his manner I concluded that he was annoyed. When at last he had finished, and the lingering echoes had died away, the old man, looking as happy as a lamb, offered to show him the beauty and ingenuity91 of the mechanism92. But the pilot merely suggested that the only sight that could interest him just then would be the old man dangling93 by the neck at the cro’jack yard-arm, with that something (I didn’t quite catch the adjective) chair jammed on to his legs. And then the unreasonable94 man walked forward, leaving the skipper looking after him with a puzzled, yearning95 expression upon his pleasant face. Perhaps it is hardly necessary to say that thenceforward relations between the pilot and the captain were somewhat strained. At any rate, the former potentate96 refused to come below, taking his meals on deck with an air as of a man whose life was at the mercy of irresponsible136 beings, and when at last we hauled up at the mouth of the river for the pilot brig to send a boat for our pilot, he left the ship looking supremely97 relieved. To the skipper’s outstretched hand he was blind, and to that gentleman’s kindly98 good-bye he said naught99 but “thank God, I’m safe out of your ship.” Away he went, never once looking back to where we were busily setting sail for the long homeward passage.
For some days everything went on greased wheels. Except for an air of mystery that overhung the ship, and which puzzled me not a little, she was the most comfortable craft I ever sailed in. The skipper scarcely ever appeared, although sundry strange noises and unpleasant odours proceeding100 from his laboratory were evidence all-sufficient that he was on the alert. I was somewhat aggrieved101 though by the mate’s sardonic102 grin every time he relieved me, and made the usual remark, “still alive, eh?” Still, as each quiet day succeeded a quieter night my wonderment became dulled, and I thought that either the mate was mistaken or that he had been trying to fool me.
One evening, however, when we were drawing near the line, I came on deck at four bells to find the mate’s watch busy rigging up a sort of theatre aft. An awning103 had been stretched over the front of the poop, weather cloths were hung along each side, and seats arranged. As soon as I appeared, looking round me in astonishment104, the mate approached me and said, “th’ entertainment’s goin’ ter begin.” Before I had time to question him as to his meaning, the old man emerged from the cabin loaded with sundry strange-looking137 machines, and followed by the steward bearing more. For a few minutes he was mighty busy placing his menagerie in order, and then he turned to me and said briskly, “Now, Mr. Roper, I’m all ready, go forrard and invite the hands aft to the lecture.” “Aye, aye, sir,” I answered mechanically, and departed. I found all hands outside the forecastle, evidently waiting for the summons, but looking as unlike men expecting a treat as one could possibly picture. But they all shambled aft in silence, and took their seats with eyes fixed105 upon the strange-looking assemblage of machinery106 in the centre.
It was a lovely evening, the sails just drawing to a steady air, while the sea was so smooth that the vessel107 was almost as motionless as if in dock. As it was my watch on deck, I mounted the poop, glanced at the standard compass, cast my eye aloft to see that all was as it should be, and then turned my gaze with intense interest upon the scene below. And what a scene it was to be sure. All hands were glaring upon the high priest of the mysteries as if mesmerised, every expression gone from their faces but that of painful anxiety to know what was going to happen. The skipper was as busy as two people about his wheels and things, and the unhappy steward like an image of fear obeyed mechanically the various commands of his dread38 master. At last a whirring sound was heard like the humming of some huge imprisoned108 bee, and to this accompaniment the skipper took up his parable109 and proceeded to talk. I frankly110 confess that I know no more what he said than I should have done had he138 been speaking in Sanskrit, and I am perfectly111 sure that none of his audience were in any better case. Indeed, from what I could see of their faces, I believe every other sense was merged47 in the full expectation of an explosion, and they couldn’t have taken their strained eyes off the buzzing gadget112 in their midst for any consideration whatever. Suddenly a dark shadow glided113 across the patch of deck behind the skipper, which I recognized as a monkey belonging to one of the crew. It reached the machine, and then——What really happened nobody is ever likely to know, for in a moment there was a shriek114, a perfect shower of blue sparks and a writhing115, kicking, biting heap of skipper, monkey, and steward. Some of the fellows, acting116 upon impulse, forgot their fears and rushed to the rescue, but only succeeded in adding to the infernal riot, as they too became involved in the mysterious calamity117. Others, wiser in their generation, fled forward to the fo’c’sle, from whence they gradually crept aft again near enough to watch in safety the devil’s dance that was going on. I looked on in a sort of coma118 of all the faculties119, until the mate touched me on the shoulder, and said in a sepulchral120 voice—
“Now, Mr. Roper, djever strike anythin’ o’ this kind before. Ain’t it scientific? Ain’t he a holy terror at science? What I’d like ter know is, where do I come on in this Gypshun Hall business? Damfime goin’ ter be blame well paralyzed, or whatever it is, for all the skippers erflote, n’ yet—n’ yet; I don’t like ter see sech ungodly carryins on aboard of any ship I’m mate of.”
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I hadn’t time to answer him—besides I couldn’t, I was all shook up like; but while I was trying to get my thinking-gear in order, there was a bang, all the sufferers yelled at once, and then all was quiet. Both the mate and myself sprang into the arena121, fully64 expecting to find all the actors dead, but, bless you, they were all laying round looking as if they’d been having no end of a spree. All except the monkey, that is. He was a very unhandsome little corpse122, and I picked him up by the tail to throw him overboard, getting a shock through my right arm that took all the use out of it for quite a while. Presently the fellows began to get up one by one and slink away forrard, still with that half-drunk smile on their heads, but when we came to the skipper, although he wore a wide smile too, he hadn’t any get up about him. Not he. He lay there as comfy as you please, taking no notice of anything we said, or any heed8 of the deliberate way in which the mate was pushing the remains123 of his machinery out through the gaping124 port with a broom. We couldn’t move him. He was just charged jam full of electricity, and one of the men who did touch him let a yell out of him fit to call D. Jones, Esq., up from below, but it didn’t change the skipper’s happy look one fragment. Well, he laid there all night alongside of the steward, and in the morning he gets up just before wash-deck time, and, says he, “Mr. Roper, I shan’t give any more scientific exhibitions this trip; I think they’re immoral125.” With that he hobbled into his cabin, and we saw no more of him for a week. When we did, you couldn’t have got a grain140 of science out of him with a small-tooth comb, and the mate looked as glad as if he’d been appointed Lord High Admiral. And from thenceforward she was, as I had at first imagined she would be, the most comfortable vessel I ever sailed in.
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