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I came out of that. I said to a deck-sweep--but in a low voice:
"
Who is that overgrown pirate with the whiskers and the discordant
voice?"
"It's Captain Bursley--executive officer--sailing master."
I loitered about awhile, and then, for want of something better to do,
fell to carving a railing with my knife. Somebody said, in an
insinuating, admonitory voice:
"Now, say--my friend--don't you know any better than to be whittling the
ship all to pieces that way? You ought to know better than that."
I went back and found the deck sweep.
"
"
Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes?"
That's Captain L****, the owner of the ship--he's one of the main
bosses."
In the course of time I brought up on the starboard side of the
pilot-house and found a sextant lying on a bench. Now, I said, they
"
take the sun" through this thing; I should think I might see that vessel
through it. I had hardly got it to my eye when someone touched me on the
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