Part 38 (1/2)
”But this is my vessel, et,” I replied ”You are no longer the biggest bit of the ferment You were, once, and able to eat me, as you were pleased to phrase it; but there has been a dirown stale”
He gave a short, disagreeable laugh ”I see you're working my philosophy back on me for all it is worth But don't ood I warn you”
”Since when have you beco nored , ”Suppose I clap the hatch on, now? You won't fool me as you did in the lazarette”
”Wolf Larsen,” I said sternly, for the first ti him by this his most fa man You have proved that to my satisfaction as well as yours But I warn you now, and not so ood as for mine, that I shall shoot you the moment you attempt a hostile act I can shoot you now, as I stand here; and if you are so o ahead and try to clap on the hatch”
”Nevertheless, I forbid you, I distinctly forbid your ta with my shi+p”
”But, man!” I expostulated, ”you advance the fact that it is your shi+p as though it were a hts in your dealings with others You surely do not drea with you?”
I had stepped underneath the open hatchway so that I could see him The lack of expression on his face, so different from when I had watched hi eyes It was not a pleasant face to look upon
”And none so poor, not even Hump, to do him reverence,” he sneered
The sneer holly in his voice His face remained expressionless as ever
”How do you do, Miss Brewster,” he said suddenly, after a pause
I started She had made no noise whatever, had not even li back?
”How do you do, Captain Larsen,” she answered ”Pray, how did you knoas here?”
”Heard you breathing, of course I say, Hu, don't you think so?”
”I don't know,” she answered, s at me ”I have never seen him otherwise”
”You should have seen hie doses,” I ”
”I want to tell you again, Hus alone”
”But don't you care to escape as well as we?” I asked incredulously
”No,” was his answer ”I intend dying here”
”Well, we don't,” I concluded defiantly, beginning again
CHAPTER xxxV
Next day, the et the two topth, the foretop the shears It was puzzling work Fastening one end of a heavy tackle to the windlass, and with the other end fast to the butt of the foretopan to heave Maud held the turn on the windlass and coiled down the slack