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Show m iWwtjST-- v - m pMn- LEHI FKEE PRESS. LEHI, UTAH -, mcAc lmciaf CHAFTEE XII Continued IS Mary felt herself tighten warily. "Pearls? Who says so?" "I'm naming no names, ma'am. I have to sleep amongst 'em. A man has to sleep sometime, and it's easy to slide a knife into a man asleep." protested: "You're trying to She scare me: "I'm scared myself, ma'am," he Insisted. "I was in a ship once that came near mutiny and you could smell it coming days before. It was wanting to get ashore to the gold fields that was the trouble then; and it's pearls they're talking now. And Pearls as big as chestnuts. they're saying that barrel of ambermake the man rich that gris would bad it safe ashore." "Bat I don't believe a word of ell that about pearls, Corkran," she declared. "If Cap'n Corr had any pearls aboard, I guess I'd know it! And nobody with any sense would stuff in the want that all if so that's you're worryibarrel; ng about . . ." He looked at her briefly. He said in a flat tone, grave again: "It's not all, if you wantthe rest of it. Ma'am, I've served many's the year at sea, and I never did see a mate playing lickspittle and "polish your boots, mister" with his men that harm didn't come of it in the end." Mary's pulse leaped. She knew suddenly that she had thought this Bame thing, without knowing her own thought, as she watched Peter bad-smelli- day after day about the ship. herself She tried to persuade thereafter that Corkran was afraid of shadows but she could not forget his uneasiness, and a day or two later she repeated part of what She did he had said to Richard. not quote Corkran's criticism of Peter, but she told Richard about the pearls. He was interested in the pearls, but he did not ask where she had hidden them; and he made light of Corkran's fears. "Men are bound to talk when they've nothing else to do," he said. Since the day he killed the whale, he and Mary had drawn happily together, finding pleasure in this new companionship, each at ease with the other. His confident dismissal of her fears reassured her; and their talk turned at random now, turned back to the years in New Bedford. Mary laughed at a sudden memory The day was fair, and for fason-a- rly ese spnr.g m h; the wind Tmild Eiw bfoad red uPon the water to where the of bnt were near the great schools and a surface; moment later a black back showed ana twin spouts rose straight as fountains. Richard himself was in tne main rigging, the watching whales now so near the that ship voices aboard were hushed and whispering. "Mr. Forbes, you play loose boat and stay clear," he directed "The mate and I will fasten if we can Tommy, g0 aloft and keep your eye peeled if they sound. Ready the together. St Kir1 boats." Peter said, to no one in particular: "Where's Feik?" Without wait- ing for an answer, he dropped down into the after 'tween decks to find mm. moment later he came on a deck again. "He's sick, Dick," he said. "Corkran will take Feik's place. Mr. Forbes, lend Borst to the mate's boat. You can manage without him," replied Richard. Peter protested "Blast it, Dick, I don't want to tackle a whale with a green man." "I think Corkran knows his business," Richard said curtly. "Lower away." He turned toward the boats, not waiting for any further word; but : George moved quickly toward him, caught his arm. "Cap'n, may I go with Mr. Forbes?" Richard looked down at him, grinned and clapped George on the H my ' '4 said: and "You know, Richard, I really hated you for a while when we were children." "Me?" "Yes. When letter." Peter gave you my He looked at her in a puzzled way. "What letter, Mary?" "Forgotten, have you?" She smiled. He shook his head. "I guess I'm dumb. What was in the letter? Who was it to?" She looked away from him, absurdly hurt and unhappy because he had forgotten; but then she remembered that Peter said Richard kept her letter, that he even read it aloud to people, and laughed at it with them. She turned away from him, her eyes suddenly hot with tears; and he saw them and caught her arm and protested: "Here, wait a minute, Mary. ten . . Lis- ." Then he stopped, for George was Just emerging from the cabin com- panion close beside them, seeing her crimson, with tears in her eyes and Richard's hand restrainingly upon her arm. If George was disturbed by what he had seen he did not show it. He kept them together in talk with him a while. When Richard presently left them, Mary tried to make some but George stopped explanation, her. "You don't need to explain to me, Mary,"' he said, gently and honestly"I'm beginning to get hold of myself. There's a jealous devil in rne. I hate to have any man look at you. I've made you unhappy because of it more than once; but I m whipping it. I know you and Cap'n Corr are old friends; but I leaped toward the He called back to Tom-jn"Tell the harpooners to grab a jJte. rii have cook pass along the "jess kid forrad. Sharp." He scrambled lor the deck, and Peter more lowly followed him. y. y: " For the boat yonder was in the air. Then the bow seemed for do reason to break off in small fragments; and then men and boat were in the sea, lost in a shuddering confusion of torn water and flying flukes and a great black body swinging to and fro. She had forgotten Peter. She saw his boat now, the sail down, the oars springing. He was at the steering oar, leaning on, making the boat swerve toward the fighting whale. Mat Forbes, well away from them, w as racing toward the fight. Peter's boat shot in alongside the black bulk. She saw Corkran in the bow erect, the harpoon ready. She had an instant's pride in Peter. This time at least he had not failed! Then she saw Corkran drive home one iron and then another. Mary saw then that Corkran was in fact lancing, his shoulders pivoting like a boxer's as he drove the keen shaft home. The whale in the instant after these new irons struck him had rolled a little, giving Cork-ra- n a chance; and he was bold to seize it. She saw the thrust; and a moment thereafter, above that turbulence of foam and flukes, she saw a red flag of blood like a fountain playing. Isaiah cackled "Ah-h!- " For the boat yonder was in the air. "Go ahead, man," he shoulder. "Mr. Forbes, mind you agreed. keep clear." And a moment later the three boats were in the water. Mary from the rail above them called softly down: "Good luck, George!" and happily; grinned George Corkran, bending the tub line to the box warp, looked up at her and nodded in a cheerful reassurance. The boats stepped their masts and under sail crossed the Venturer's bow. Richard took the lead, Peter close behind him, Mat Forbes bearing away beyond them to keep clear. Isaiah, beside Mary at the rail, looked after them in muttering wrath. give "Like as not young Starn-al- l Feik something to sicken him He'll always stay astern the lighter if he can, when it's time lower." "He and Richard are different, aren't they?" Isaiah exploded scornfully: "Why wouldn't they be?" "Well, after all, they're brothers." "Act like brothers, do they?" he She turned to him in demanded. astonishment, and he said triumto in a sort of glee- ful wonder: "Got him first jab! Say, that Cork-ra- n won't ever go ashore t'wind-'ard!- " Then the whale drove away, on the surface, thrashing flukes, breaching half out of water, its spoutholes streaming blood like a crimson banner. Mary watched the men in the water. Mat's boat reached them and began to pick them up, pulling man after man over the side. All of them. Saved! A great relief swept her; and she held hard to Isaiah's arm. Isaiah said disgustedly: "Blast! That whale's sunk." Her eye swept the water in all directions and saw nowhere a spout, no glistening back, nothing but Mat's boat yonder now full of men, and Peter's bobbing on an empty sea. "Corkran went in too high with that lance," Isaiah said, and spat. "Can't blame him. He had to work fast. But he went in over the shoulder blade. Right whale's got an air bladder same as a fish. You let the air out and down it goes. He looked at her sidewise. "There's times phantly: "Well, they ain't!" "You mean, not at all?" "Not a mite!" he assured her. that thereafter she loved him more and "But they must be!" She was more. wholly bewildered ; and her increduRichard told them one morning at lity, working on his anger, drove breakfast his plan to cruise a while him to a loquacity he would regret. on the right whale grounds among He said stubbornly: the islands off the South "Must be or not, they ain't Cap'n American coast, and perhaps fill their casks Ira'd ought to know! Here the night before refitting to round Cape Horn he died, Ira told Richard that Pete homeward bound. wa'n't even his own son! Me and Peter was eating slowly, sawing Hiram was there and heard him. evfit the tough salt beef, not raising Old Ira told Richard he'd heir to Pete." dollar a nis eyes. He said resentfully: "This erything, onlyhe had said too much, Salt horse's Realizing as witchet, Dick. tough the water; said: " s about time we put in some- he pointed across where for fresh stores." "The boats will be on 'em in a min"We'll refit before we make up ute now." found herfor Cape Mary, turning to look, Stiff," Richard reminded inhim. "But we've got business to self shocked and confused by thisdisattend to around here first." Mat credible intelligence; but as the Forbes went on deck. "It won't tance between boats and whales nartake more than a couple of these rowed, she forgot what Isaiah had of 'he immitat old bulls to fill us up," said in the excitement bung encounter. K'ehard said; and then Mat spoke nent the bow of softly through the open skylight Mary saw Big Pip " mile a away half above them. boat Richard's "Whales close aboard, Cap'n drive home a harpoon. Corr." CHAPTER XIII Richard know there's nothing else." She was so grateful to him backed off, the sail and mast came down. Richard and Big Pip were changing ends. Isaiah cackled in shrill glee. "Never saw Pip mux it before. They don't take to that! Look at him cut for 'em! And then suddenly, m a long, whistling sigh: "Ah-h!- I talk more'n I'd ought to," he admitted awkwardly. "Like telling you about the mate not being Cap'n Ira's son. Richard told me not to, and he'd give me fits if he found out I did; but it's so. Cap'n Ira married a'widow woman, and the mate was her young 'un. She wouldn't marry him only if he'd tell folks Pete was his. They kep' anybody from knowing, somehow." He added: "But I'd oughtn't to've told you. I was kind of worked up at Pete for trying to get out of lowering." She said reassuringly: "I won't tell anyone. It's not our business, is it. Does Peter know?" "He ain't supposed to." He cackled with a relish. "It's going to be some supprise to that young smelt when he hears the will read out. I'd admire to be there to see." The boats were near; and they moved to the rail. Mat was ahead, Peter some distance behind, towing the stove boat; and Peter was standing up, using the long steering oar instead of the tiller which he might sensibly have preferred for this peaceful return to the ship. Richard faced forward, and he seemed to droop in a discouraged, broken fashion. Mary lifted her hand and called to them, a greeting without words. The boat came alongside, and she called: "Was it fun, George? Are you hurt, Richard?" George grinned happily, and Richard shook his head. "I'm all right. Sassnet's ankle's twisted. The flukes just ticked me on the arm. But il it hadn't been for Peter it would have been bad. The whale was ugly." Yet she saw then that he was more seriously hurt than he had said. He was needing help to reach the deck. His left arm appeared tc be of little use to him; and he was white with pain. Mat said: "You'd best get intc some dry clothes and see how bad that arm is." Richard nodded and went aft, anc Mary looked after him, wishing tc follow him but George was beside her, flushed, full of talk, tremblint with the excitement of the past few minutes. She heard him telling hei what he had seen, and tried to lis ten, and caught broken phrases "One so near we could have hit hirr with our oars . . . Peter didn'! hesitate this time." And then sh( heard him say: "Losing his boa' will make Richard a little more hu man. Not quite so sure of himself.' She wished to say loyally that ar accident might happen to anyone; but instead she spoke of Peter. "I'rr glad Peter killed the whale. He'j been feeling so badly about Unclt then moment She thought for a not one Tom." had harpooned that Pip flukes "It was Corkran who killed it," hi whale but a dozen. 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