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"
Steady
,
"
murmured
the
Serang
.
Massy
turned
away
with
his
chin
on
his
shoulder
.
"
I
do
n't
believe
it
,
"
he
said
in
his
dogmatic
tone
.
Captain
Whalley
made
no
movement
.
"
There
you
sit
like
a
gorged
vulture
--
exactly
like
a
vulture
"
He
embraced
the
middle
of
the
reach
and
both
the
banks
in
one
blank
unseeing
circular
glance
,
and
left
the
bridge
slowly
.
On
turning
to
descend
Massy
perceived
the
head
of
Sterne
the
mate
loitering
,
with
his
sly
confident
smile
,
his
red
mustaches
and
blinking
eyes
,
at
the
foot
of
the
ladder
.
Sterne
had
been
a
junior
in
one
of
the
larger
shipping
concerns
before
joining
the
Sofala
.
He
had
thrown
up
his
berth
,
he
said
,
"
on
general
principles
.
"
The
promotion
in
the
employ
was
very
slow
,
he
complained
,
and
he
thought
it
was
time
for
him
to
try
and
get
on
a
bit
in
the
world
.
It
seemed
as
though
nobody
would
ever
die
or
leave
the
firm
;
they
all
stuck
fast
in
their
berths
till
they
got
mildewed
;
he
was
tired
of
waiting
;
and
he
feared
that
when
a
vacancy
did
occur
the
best
servants
were
by
no
means
sure
of
being
treated
fairly
.
Besides
,
the
captain
he
had
to
serve
under
--
Captain
Provost
--
was
an
unaccountable
sort
of
man
,
and
,
he
fancied
,
had
taken
a
dislike
to
him
for
some
reason
or
other
.
For
doing
rather
more
than
his
bare
duty
as
likely
as
not
.
When
he
had
done
anything
wrong
he
could
take
a
talking
to
,
like
a
man
;
but
he
expected
to
be
treated
like
a
man
too
,
and
not
to
be
addressed
invariably
as
though
he
were
a
dog
.
He
had
asked
Captain
Provost
plump
and
plain
to
tell
him
where
he
was
at
fault
,
and
Captain
Provost
,
in
a
most
scornful
way
,
had
told
him
that
he
was
a
perfect
officer
,
and
that
if
he
disliked
the
way
he
was
being
spoken
to
there
was
the
gangway
--
he
could
take
himself
off
ashore
at
once
.
But
everybody
knew
what
sort
of
man
Captain
Provost
was
.
It
was
no
use
appealing
to
the
office
.
Captain
Provost
had
too
much
influence
in
the
employ
.
All
the
same
,
they
had
to
give
him
a
good
character
.
He
made
bold
to
say
there
was
nothing
in
the
world
against
him
,
and
,
as
he
had
happened
to
hear
that
the
mate
of
the
Sofala
had
been
taken
to
the
hospital
that
morning
with
a
sunstroke
,
he
thought
there
would
be
no
harm
in
seeing
whether
he
would
not
do
...
He
had
come
to
Captain
Whalley
freshly
shaved
,
red-faced
,
thin-flanked
,
throwing
out
his
lean
chest
;
and
had
recited
his
little
tale
with
an
open
and
manly
assurance
.
Now
and
then
his
eyelids
quivered
slightly
,
his
hand
would
steal
up
to
the
end
of
the
flaming
mustache
;
his
eyebrows
were
straight
,
furry
,
of
a
chestnut
color
,
and
the
directness
of
his
frank
gaze
seemed
to
tremble
on
the
verge
of
impudence
.
Captain
Whalley
had
engaged
him
temporarily
;
then
,
the
other
man
having
been
ordered
home
by
the
doctors
,
he
had
remained
for
the
next
trip
,
and
then
the
next
.
He
had
now
attained
permanency
,
and
the
performance
of
his
duties
was
marked
by
an
air
of
serious
,
single-minded
application
.
Directly
he
was
spoken
to
,
he
began
to
smile
attentively
,
with
a
great
deference
expressed
in
his
whole
attitude
;
but
there
was
in
the
rapid
winking
which
went
on
all
the
time
something
quizzical
,
as
though
he
had
possessed
the
secret
of
some
universal
joke
cheating
all
creation
and
impenetrable
to
other
mortals
.
Grave
and
smiling
he
watched
Massy
come
down
step
by
step
;
when
the
chief
engineer
had
reached
the
deck
he
swung
about
,
and
they
found
themselves
face
to
face
.
Matched
as
to
height
and
utterly
dissimilar
,
they
confronted
each
other
as
if
there
had
been
something
between
them
--
something
else
than
the
bright
strip
of
sunlight
that
,
falling
through
the
wide
lacing
of
two
awnings
,
cut
crosswise
the
narrow
planking
of
the
deck
and
separated
their
feet
as
it
were
a
stream
;
something
profound
and
subtle
and
incalculable
,
like
an
unexpressed
understanding
,
a
secret
mistrust
,
or
some
sort
of
fear
.
