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'
Of
course
I
stooped
instantly
.
I
defy
anybody
not
to
have
done
so
.
"
What
can
you
see
?
"
he
asked
.
"
Nothing
,
"
I
said
,
feeling
awfully
ashamed
of
myself
.
He
scrutinised
my
face
with
wild
and
withering
contempt
.
"
Just
so
,
"
he
said
,
"
but
if
I
were
to
look
I
could
see
--
there
's
no
eyes
like
mine
,
I
tell
you
.
"
Again
he
clawed
,
pulling
at
me
downwards
in
his
eagerness
to
relieve
himself
by
a
confidential
communication
.
"
Millions
of
pink
toads
.
There
's
no
eyes
like
mine
.
Millions
of
pink
toads
.
It
's
worse
than
seeing
a
ship
sink
.
I
could
look
at
sinking
ships
and
smoke
my
pipe
all
day
long
.
Why
do
n't
they
give
me
back
my
pipe
?
I
would
get
a
smoke
while
I
watched
these
toads
.
The
ship
was
full
of
them
.
They
've
got
to
be
watched
,
you
know
.
"
He
winked
facetiously
.
The
perspiration
dripped
on
him
off
my
head
,
my
drill
coat
clung
to
my
wet
back
:
the
afternoon
breeze
swept
impetuously
over
the
row
of
bedsteads
,
the
stiff
folds
of
curtains
stirred
perpendicularly
,
rattling
on
brass
rods
,
the
covers
of
empty
beds
blew
about
noiselessly
near
the
bare
floor
all
along
the
line
,
and
I
shivered
to
the
very
marrow
.
The
soft
wind
of
the
tropics
played
in
that
naked
ward
as
bleak
as
a
winter
's
gale
in
an
old
barn
at
home
.
"
Do
n't
you
let
him
start
his
hollering
,
mister
,
"
hailed
from
afar
the
accident
case
in
a
distressed
angry
shout
that
came
ringing
between
the
walls
like
a
quavering
call
down
a
tunnel
.
The
clawing
hand
hauled
at
my
shoulder
;
he
leered
at
me
knowingly
.
"
The
ship
was
full
of
them
,
you
know
,
and
we
had
to
clear
out
on
the
strict
Q.T.
,
"
he
whispered
with
extreme
rapidity
.
"
All
pink
.
All
pink
--
as
big
as
mastiffs
,
with
an
eye
on
the
top
of
the
head
and
claws
all
round
their
ugly
mouths
.
Ough
!
Ough
!
"
Quick
jerks
as
of
galvanic
shocks
disclosed
under
the
flat
coverlet
the
outlines
of
meagre
and
agitated
legs
;
he
let
go
my
shoulder
and
reached
after
something
in
the
air
;
his
body
trembled
tensely
like
a
released
harp-string
;
and
while
I
looked
down
,
the
spectral
horror
in
him
broke
through
his
glassy
gaze
.
Instantly
his
face
of
an
old
soldier
,
with
its
noble
and
calm
outlines
,
became
decomposed
before
my
eyes
by
the
corruption
of
stealthy
cunning
,
of
an
abominable
caution
and
of
desperate
fear
.
He
restrained
a
cry
--
"
Ssh
!
what
are
they
doing
now
down
there
?
"
he
asked
,
pointing
to
the
floor
with
fantastic
precautions
of
voice
and
gesture
,
whose
meaning
,
borne
upon
my
mind
in
a
lurid
flash
,
made
me
very
sick
of
my
cleverness
.
"
They
are
all
asleep
,
"
I
answered
,
watching
him
narrowly
.
That
was
it
.
That
's
what
he
wanted
to
hear
;
these
were
the
exact
words
that
could
calm
him
.
He
drew
a
long
breath
.
"
Ssh
!
Quiet
,
steady
.
I
am
an
old
stager
out
here
.
I
know
them
brutes
.
Bash
in
the
head
of
the
first
that
stirs
.
There
's
too
many
of
them
,
and
she
wo
n't
swim
more
than
ten
minutes
.
"
He
panted
again
.
"
Hurry
up
,
"
he
yelled
suddenly
,
and
went
on
in
a
steady
scream
:
"
They
are
all
awake
--
millions
of
them
.
They
are
trampling
on
me
!
Wait
!
Oh
,
wait
!
I
'll
smash
them
in
heaps
like
flies
.
Wait
for
me
!
Help
!
H-e-elp
!
"
An
interminable
and
sustained
howl
completed
my
discomfiture
.
I
saw
in
the
distance
the
accident
case
raise
deplorably
both
his
hands
to
his
bandaged
head
;
a
dresser
,
aproned
to
the
chin
showed
himself
in
the
vista
of
the
ward
,
as
if
seen
in
the
small
end
of
a
telescope
.
I
confessed
myself
fairly
routed
,
and
without
more
ado
,
stepping
out
through
one
of
the
long
windows
,
escaped
into
the
outside
gallery
.
The
howl
pursued
me
like
a
vengeance
.
I
turned
into
a
deserted
landing
,
and
suddenly
all
became
very
still
and
quiet
around
me
,
and
I
descended
the
bare
and
shiny
staircase
in
a
silence
that
enabled
me
to
compose
my
distracted
thoughts
.
Down
below
I
met
one
of
the
resident
surgeons
who
was
crossing
the
courtyard
and
stopped
me
.
"
Been
to
see
your
man
,
Captain
?
I
think
we
may
let
him
go
to-morrow
.
These
fools
have
no
notion
of
taking
care
of
themselves
,
though
.
I
say
,
we
've
got
the
chief
engineer
of
that
pilgrim
ship
here
.
A
curious
case
.
D.T.
'
s
of
the
worst
kind
.
He
has
been
drinking
hard
in
that
Greek
's
or
Italian
's
grog-shop
for
three
days
.
What
can
you
expect
?
Four
bottles
of
that
kind
of
brandy
a
day
,
I
am
told
.
Wonderful
,
if
true
.
Sheeted
with
boiler-iron
inside
I
should
think
.
The
head
,
ah
!
the
head
,
of
course
,
gone
,
but
the
curious
part
is
there
's
some
sort
of
method
in
his
raving
.
I
am
trying
to
find
out
.
Most
unusual
--
that
thread
of
logic
in
such
a
delirium
.
Traditionally
he
ought
to
see
snakes
,
but
he
does
n't
.
Good
old
tradition
's
at
a
discount
nowadays
.
Eh
!
His
--
er
--
visions
are
batrachian
.
Ha
!
ha
!
No
,
seriously
,
I
never
remember
being
so
interested
in
a
case
of
jim-jams
before
He
ought
to
be
dead
,
do
n't
you
know
,
after
such
a
festive
experiment
.
Oh
!
he
is
a
tough
object
.
Four-and-twenty
years
of
the
tropics
too
.
You
ought
really
to
take
a
peep
at
him
.
Noble-looking
old
boozer
.
Most
extraordinary
man
I
ever
met
--
medically
,
of
course
.
Wo
n't
you
?
"
'
I
had
been
all
along
exhibiting
the
usual
polite
signs
of
interest
,
but
now
assuming
an
air
of
regret
I
murmured
of
want
of
time
,
and
shook
hands
in
a
hurry
.
"
I
say
,
"
he
cried
after
me
;
"
he
ca
n't
attend
that
inquiry
.
Is
his
evidence
material
,
you
think
?
"
"'
Not
in
the
least
,
"
I
called
back
from
the
gateway
.
'
'
The
authorities
were
evidently
of
the
same
opinion
.
The
inquiry
was
not
adjourned
.
It
was
held
on
the
appointed
day
to
satisfy
the
law
,
and
it
was
well
attended
because
of
its
human
interest
,
no
doubt
.
There
was
no
incertitude
as
to
facts
--
as
to
the
one
material
fact
,
I
mean
.
How
the
Patna
came
by
her
hurt
it
was
impossible
to
find
out
;
the
court
did
not
expect
to
find
out
;
and
in
the
whole
audience
there
was
not
a
man
who
cared
.
Yet
,
as
I
've
told
you
,
all
the
sailors
in
the
port
attended
,
and
the
waterside
business
was
fully
represented
.
Whether
they
knew
it
or
not
,
the
interest
that
drew
them
there
was
purely
psychological
--
the
expectation
of
some
essential
disclosure
as
to
the
strength
,
the
power
,
the
horror
,
of
human
emotions
.
Naturally
nothing
of
the
kind
could
be
disclosed
.
The
examination
of
the
only
man
able
and
willing
to
face
it
was
beating
futilely
round
the
well-known
fact
,
and
the
play
of
questions
upon
it
was
as
instructive
as
the
tapping
with
a
hammer
on
an
iron
box
,
were
the
object
to
find
out
what
's
inside
.
However
,
an
official
inquiry
could
not
be
any
other
thing
.
Its
object
was
not
the
fundamental
why
,
but
the
superficial
how
,
of
this
affair
.
'
The
young
chap
could
have
told
them
,
and
,
though
that
very
thing
was
the
thing
that
interested
the
audience
,
the
questions
put
to
him
necessarily
led
him
away
from
what
to
me
,
for
instance
,
would
have
been
the
only
truth
worth
knowing
.
You
ca
n't
expect
the
constituted
authorities
to
inquire
into
the
state
of
a
man
's
soul
--
or
is
it
only
of
his
liver
?
Their
business
was
to
come
down
upon
the
consequences
,
and
frankly
,
a
casual
police
magistrate
and
two
nautical
assessors
are
not
much
good
for
anything
else
.
I
do
n't
mean
to
imply
these
fellows
were
stupid
.
The
magistrate
was
very
patient
.
One
of
the
assessors
was
a
sailing-ship
skipper
with
a
reddish
beard
,
and
of
a
pious
disposition
.
Brierly
was
the
other
.
Big
Brierly
.
Some
of
you
must
have
heard
of
Big
Brierly
--
the
captain
of
the
crack
ship
of
the
Blue
Star
line
.
That
's
the
man
.
