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'
There
they
were
,
sure
enough
,
three
of
them
as
large
as
life
,
and
one
much
larger
of
girth
than
any
living
man
has
a
right
to
be
,
just
landed
with
a
good
breakfast
inside
of
them
from
an
outward-bound
Dale
Line
steamer
that
had
come
in
about
an
hour
after
sunrise
.
There
could
be
no
mistake
;
I
spotted
the
jolly
skipper
of
the
Patna
at
the
first
glance
:
the
fattest
man
in
the
whole
blessed
tropical
belt
clear
round
that
good
old
earth
of
ours
.
Moreover
,
nine
months
or
so
before
,
I
had
come
across
him
in
Samarang
.
His
steamer
was
loading
in
the
Roads
,
and
he
was
abusing
the
tyrannical
institutions
of
the
German
empire
,
and
soaking
himself
in
beer
all
day
long
and
day
after
day
in
De
Jongh
's
back-shop
,
till
De
Jongh
,
who
charged
a
guilder
for
every
bottle
without
as
much
as
the
quiver
of
an
eyelid
,
would
beckon
me
aside
,
and
,
with
his
little
leathery
face
all
puckered
up
,
declare
confidentially
,
"
Business
is
business
,
but
this
man
,
captain
,
he
make
me
very
sick
.
Tfui
!
"
'
I
was
looking
at
him
from
the
shade
.
He
was
hurrying
on
a
little
in
advance
,
and
the
sunlight
beating
on
him
brought
out
his
bulk
in
a
startling
way
.
He
made
me
think
of
a
trained
baby
elephant
walking
on
hind-legs
.
He
was
extravagantly
gorgeous
too
--
got
up
in
a
soiled
sleeping-suit
,
bright
green
and
deep
orange
vertical
stripes
,
with
a
pair
of
ragged
straw
slippers
on
his
bare
feet
,
and
somebody
's
cast-off
pith
hat
,
very
dirty
and
two
sizes
too
small
for
him
,
tied
up
with
a
manilla
rope-yarn
on
the
top
of
his
big
head
.
You
understand
a
man
like
that
has
n't
the
ghost
of
a
chance
when
it
comes
to
borrowing
clothes
.
Very
well
.
On
he
came
in
hot
haste
,
without
a
look
right
or
left
,
passed
within
three
feet
of
me
,
and
in
the
innocence
of
his
heart
went
on
pelting
upstairs
into
the
harbour
office
to
make
his
deposition
,
or
report
,
or
whatever
you
like
to
call
it
.
'
It
appears
he
addressed
himself
in
the
first
instance
to
the
principal
shipping-master
.
Archie
Ruthvel
had
just
come
in
,
and
,
as
his
story
goes
,
was
about
to
begin
his
arduous
day
by
giving
a
dressing-down
to
his
chief
clerk
.
Some
of
you
might
have
known
him
--
an
obliging
little
Portuguese
half-caste
with
a
miserably
skinny
neck
,
and
always
on
the
hop
to
get
something
from
the
shipmasters
in
the
way
of
eatables
--
a
piece
of
salt
pork
,
a
bag
of
biscuits
,
a
few
potatoes
,
or
what
not
.
One
voyage
,
I
recollect
,
I
tipped
him
a
live
sheep
out
of
the
remnant
of
my
sea-stock
:
not
that
I
wanted
him
to
do
anything
for
me
--
he
could
n't
,
you
know
--
but
because
his
child-like
belief
in
the
sacred
right
to
perquisites
quite
touched
my
heart
.
It
was
so
strong
as
to
be
almost
beautiful
.
The
race
--
the
two
races
rather
--
and
the
climate
...
However
,
never
mind
.
I
know
where
I
have
a
friend
for
life
.
'
Well
,
Ruthvel
says
he
was
giving
him
a
severe
lecture
--
on
official
morality
,
I
suppose
--
when
he
heard
a
kind
of
subdued
commotion
at
his
back
,
and
turning
his
head
he
saw
,
in
his
own
words
,
something
round
and
enormous
,
resembling
a
sixteen-hundred-weight
sugar-hogshead
wrapped
in
striped
flannelette
,
up-ended
in
the
middle
of
the
large
floor
space
in
the
office
.
He
declares
he
was
so
taken
aback
that
for
quite
an
appreciable
time
he
did
not
realise
the
thing
was
alive
,
and
sat
still
wondering
for
what
purpose
and
by
what
means
that
object
had
been
transported
in
front
of
his
desk
.
The
archway
from
the
ante-room
was
crowded
with
punkah-pullers
,
sweepers
,
police
peons
,
the
coxswain
and
crew
of
the
harbour
steam-launch
,
all
craning
their
necks
and
almost
climbing
on
each
other
's
backs
.
Quite
a
riot
.
By
that
time
the
fellow
had
managed
to
tug
and
jerk
his
hat
clear
of
his
head
,
and
advanced
with
slight
bows
at
Ruthvel
,
who
told
me
the
sight
was
so
discomposing
that
for
some
time
he
listened
,
quite
unable
to
make
out
what
that
apparition
wanted
.
It
spoke
in
a
voice
harsh
and
lugubrious
but
intrepid
,
and
little
by
little
it
dawned
upon
Archie
that
this
was
a
development
of
the
Patna
case
.
He
says
that
as
soon
as
he
understood
who
it
was
before
him
he
felt
quite
unwell
--
Archie
is
so
sympathetic
and
easily
upset
--
but
pulled
himself
together
and
shouted
"
Stop
!
I
ca
n't
listen
to
you
.
You
must
go
to
the
Master
Attendant
.
I
ca
n't
possibly
listen
to
you
.
Captain
Elliot
is
the
man
you
want
to
see
.
This
way
,
this
way
.
"
He
jumped
up
,
ran
round
that
long
counter
,
pulled
,
shoved
:
the
other
let
him
,
surprised
but
obedient
at
first
,
and
only
at
the
door
of
the
private
office
some
sort
of
animal
instinct
made
him
hang
back
and
snort
like
a
frightened
bullock
.
"
Look
here
!
what
's
up
?
Let
go
!
Look
here
!
"
Archie
flung
open
the
door
without
knocking
.
"
The
master
of
the
Patna
,
sir
,
"
he
shouts
.
"
Go
in
,
captain
.
"
He
saw
the
old
man
lift
his
head
from
some
writing
so
sharp
that
his
nose-nippers
fell
off
,
banged
the
door
to
,
and
fled
to
his
desk
,
where
he
had
some
papers
waiting
for
his
signature
:
but
he
says
the
row
that
burst
out
in
there
was
so
awful
that
he
could
n't
collect
his
senses
sufficiently
to
remember
the
spelling
of
his
own
name
.
Archie
's
the
most
sensitive
shipping-master
in
the
two
hemispheres
.
He
declares
he
felt
as
though
he
had
thrown
a
man
to
a
hungry
lion
.
No
doubt
the
noise
was
great
.
I
heard
it
down
below
,
and
I
have
every
reason
to
believe
it
was
heard
clear
across
the
Esplanade
as
far
as
the
band-stand
.
Old
father
Elliot
had
a
great
stock
of
words
and
could
shout
--
and
did
n't
mind
who
he
shouted
at
either
.
He
would
have
shouted
at
the
Viceroy
himself
.
As
he
used
to
tell
me
:
"
I
am
as
high
as
I
can
get
;
my
pension
is
safe
.
I
've
a
few
pounds
laid
by
,
and
if
they
do
n't
like
my
notions
of
duty
I
would
just
as
soon
go
home
as
not
.
I
am
an
old
man
,
and
I
have
always
spoken
my
mind
.
All
I
care
for
now
is
to
see
my
girls
married
before
I
die
.
"
He
was
a
little
crazy
on
that
point
.
His
three
daughters
were
awfully
nice
,
though
they
resembled
him
amazingly
,
and
on
the
mornings
he
woke
up
with
a
gloomy
view
of
their
matrimonial
prospects
the
office
would
read
it
in
his
eye
and
tremble
,
because
,
they
said
,
he
was
sure
to
have
somebody
for
breakfast
.
However
,
that
morning
he
did
not
eat
the
renegade
,
but
,
if
I
may
be
allowed
to
carry
on
the
metaphor
,
chewed
him
up
very
small
,
so
to
speak
,
and
--
ah
!
ejected
him
again
.
'
Thus
in
a
very
few
moments
I
saw
his
monstrous
bulk
descend
in
haste
and
stand
still
on
the
outer
steps
.
He
had
stopped
close
to
me
for
the
purpose
of
profound
meditation
:
his
large
purple
cheeks
quivered
.
He
was
biting
his
thumb
,
and
after
a
while
noticed
me
with
a
sidelong
vexed
look
.
The
other
three
chaps
that
had
landed
with
him
made
a
little
group
waiting
at
some
distance
.
There
was
a
sallow-faced
,
mean
little
chap
with
his
arm
in
a
sling
,
and
a
long
individual
in
a
blue
flannel
coat
,
as
dry
as
a
chip
and
no
stouter
than
a
broomstick
,
with
drooping
grey
moustaches
,
who
looked
about
him
with
an
air
of
jaunty
imbecility
.
The
third
was
an
upstanding
,
broad-shouldered
youth
,
with
his
hands
in
his
pockets
,
turning
his
back
on
the
other
two
who
appeared
to
be
talking
together
earnestly
.
He
stared
across
the
empty
Esplanade
.
A
ramshackle
gharry
,
all
dust
and
venetian
blinds
,
pulled
up
short
opposite
the
group
,
and
the
driver
,
throwing
up
his
right
foot
over
his
knee
,
gave
himself
up
to
the
critical
examination
of
his
toes
.
The
young
chap
,
making
no
movement
,
not
even
stirring
his
head
,
just
stared
into
the
sunshine
.
This
was
my
first
view
of
Jim
.
He
looked
as
unconcerned
and
unapproachable
as
only
the
young
can
look
.
There
he
stood
,
clean-limbed
,
clean-faced
,
firm
on
his
feet
,
as
promising
a
boy
as
the
sun
ever
shone
on
;
and
,
looking
at
him
,
knowing
all
he
knew
and
a
little
more
too
,
I
was
as
angry
as
though
I
had
detected
him
trying
to
get
something
out
of
me
by
false
pretences
.
He
had
no
business
to
look
so
sound
.
I
thought
to
myself
--
well
,
if
this
sort
can
go
wrong
like
that
...
and
I
felt
as
though
I
could
fling
down
my
hat
and
dance
on
it
from
sheer
mortification
,
as
I
once
saw
the
skipper
of
an
Italian
barque
do
because
his
duffer
of
a
mate
got
into
a
mess
with
his
anchors
when
making
a
flying
moor
in
a
roadstead
full
of
ships
.
I
asked
myself
,
seeing
him
there
apparently
so
much
at
ease
--
is
he
silly
?
is
he
callous
?
He
seemed
ready
to
start
whistling
a
tune
.
And
note
,
I
did
not
care
a
rap
about
the
behaviour
of
the
other
two
.
Their
persons
somehow
fitted
the
tale
that
was
public
property
,
and
was
going
to
be
the
subject
of
an
official
inquiry
.
"
That
old
mad
rogue
upstairs
called
me
a
hound
,
"
said
the
captain
of
the
Patna
.
I
ca
n't
tell
whether
he
recognised
me
--
I
rather
think
he
did
;
but
at
any
rate
our
glances
met
.
He
glared
--
I
smiled
;
hound
was
the
very
mildest
epithet
that
had
reached
me
through
the
open
window
.
"
Did
he
?
"
I
said
from
some
strange
inability
to
hold
my
tongue
.
He
nodded
,
bit
his
thumb
again
,
swore
under
his
breath
:
then
lifting
his
head
and
looking
at
me
with
sullen
and
passionate
impudence
--
"
Bah
!
the
Pacific
is
big
,
my
friendt
.
You
damned
Englishmen
can
do
your
worst
;
I
know
where
there
's
plenty
room
for
a
man
like
me
:
I
am
well
aguaindt
in
Apia
,
in
Honolulu
,
in
...
"
He
paused
reflectively
,
while
without
effort
I
could
depict
to
myself
the
sort
of
people
he
was
"
aguaindt
"
with
in
those
places
.
I
wo
n't
make
a
secret
of
it
that
I
had
been
"
aguaindt
"
with
not
a
few
of
that
sort
myself
.
There
are
times
when
a
man
must
act
as
though
life
were
equally
sweet
in
any
company
.
I
've
known
such
a
time
,
and
,
what
's
more
,
I
sha
n't
now
pretend
to
pull
a
long
face
over
my
necessity
,
because
a
good
many
of
that
bad
company
from
want
of
moral
--
moral
--
what
shall
I
say
?
--
posture
,
or
from
some
other
equally
profound
cause
,
were
twice
as
instructive
and
twenty
times
more
amusing
than
the
usual
respectable
thief
of
commerce
you
fellows
ask
to
sit
at
your
table
without
any
real
necessity
--
from
habit
,
from
cowardice
,
from
good-nature
,
from
a
hundred
sneaking
and
inadequate
reasons
.
