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I
should
think
he
was
too
busy
watching
the
threatening
slant
of
the
ship
,
the
suspended
menace
discovered
in
the
midst
of
the
most
perfect
security
--
fascinated
by
the
sword
hanging
by
a
hair
over
his
imaginative
head
.
'
Nothing
in
the
world
moved
before
his
eyes
,
and
he
could
depict
to
himself
without
hindrance
the
sudden
swing
upwards
of
the
dark
sky-line
,
the
sudden
tilt
up
of
the
vast
plain
of
the
sea
,
the
swift
still
rise
,
the
brutal
fling
,
the
grasp
of
the
abyss
,
the
struggle
without
hope
,
the
starlight
closing
over
his
head
for
ever
like
the
vault
of
a
tomb
--
the
revolt
of
his
young
life
--
the
black
end
.
He
could
!
By
Jove
!
who
could
n't
?
And
you
must
remember
he
was
a
finished
artist
in
that
peculiar
way
,
he
was
a
gifted
poor
devil
with
the
faculty
of
swift
and
forestalling
vision
.
The
sights
it
showed
him
had
turned
him
into
cold
stone
from
the
soles
of
his
feet
to
the
nape
of
his
neck
;
but
there
was
a
hot
dance
of
thoughts
in
his
head
,
a
dance
of
lame
,
blind
,
mute
thoughts
--
a
whirl
of
awful
cripples
.
Did
n't
I
tell
you
he
confessed
himself
before
me
as
though
I
had
the
power
to
bind
and
to
loose
?
He
burrowed
deep
,
deep
,
in
the
hope
of
my
absolution
,
which
would
have
been
of
no
good
to
him
.
This
was
one
of
those
cases
which
no
solemn
deception
can
palliate
,
where
no
man
can
help
;
where
his
very
Maker
seems
to
abandon
a
sinner
to
his
own
devices
.
'
He
stood
on
the
starboard
side
of
the
bridge
,
as
far
as
he
could
get
from
the
struggle
for
the
boat
,
which
went
on
with
the
agitation
of
madness
and
the
stealthiness
of
a
conspiracy
.
The
two
Malays
had
meantime
remained
holding
to
the
wheel
.
Just
picture
to
yourselves
the
actors
in
that
,
thank
God
!
unique
,
episode
of
the
sea
,
four
beside
themselves
with
fierce
and
secret
exertions
,
and
three
looking
on
in
complete
immobility
,
above
the
awnings
covering
the
profound
ignorance
of
hundreds
of
human
beings
,
with
their
weariness
,
with
their
dreams
,
with
their
hopes
,
arrested
,
held
by
an
invisible
hand
on
the
brink
of
annihilation
.
For
that
they
were
so
,
makes
no
doubt
to
me
:
given
the
state
of
the
ship
,
this
was
the
deadliest
possible
description
of
accident
that
could
happen
.
These
beggars
by
the
boat
had
every
reason
to
go
distracted
with
funk
.
Frankly
,
had
I
been
there
,
I
would
not
have
given
as
much
as
a
counterfeit
farthing
for
the
ship
's
chance
to
keep
above
water
to
the
end
of
each
successive
second
.
And
still
she
floated
!
These
sleeping
pilgrims
were
destined
to
accomplish
their
whole
pilgrimage
to
the
bitterness
of
some
other
end
.
It
was
as
if
the
Omnipotence
whose
mercy
they
confessed
had
needed
their
humble
testimony
on
earth
for
a
while
longer
,
and
had
looked
down
to
make
a
sign
,
"
Thou
shalt
not
!
"
to
the
ocean
.
Their
escape
would
trouble
me
as
a
prodigiously
inexplicable
event
,
did
I
not
know
how
tough
old
iron
can
be
--
as
tough
sometimes
as
the
spirit
of
some
men
we
meet
now
and
then
,
worn
to
a
shadow
and
breasting
the
weight
of
life
.
Not
the
least
wonder
of
these
twenty
minutes
,
to
my
mind
,
is
the
behaviour
of
the
two
helmsmen
.
They
were
amongst
the
native
batch
of
all
sorts
brought
over
from
Aden
to
give
evidence
at
the
inquiry
.
One
of
them
,
labouring
under
intense
bashfulness
,
was
very
young
,
and
with
his
smooth
,
yellow
,
cheery
countenance
looked
even
younger
than
he
was
.
I
remember
perfectly
Brierly
asking
him
,
through
the
interpreter
,
what
he
thought
of
it
at
the
time
,
and
the
interpreter
,
after
a
short
colloquy
,
turning
to
the
court
with
an
important
air
--
"'
He
says
he
thought
nothing
.
"
'
The
other
,
with
patient
blinking
eyes
,
a
blue
cotton
handkerchief
,
faded
with
much
washing
,
bound
with
a
smart
twist
over
a
lot
of
grey
wisps
,
his
face
shrunk
into
grim
hollows
,
his
brown
skin
made
darker
by
a
mesh
of
wrinkles
,
explained
that
he
had
a
knowledge
of
some
evil
thing
befalling
the
ship
,
but
there
had
been
no
order
;
he
could
not
remember
an
order
;
why
should
he
leave
the
helm
?
To
some
further
questions
he
jerked
back
his
spare
shoulders
,
and
declared
it
never
came
into
his
mind
then
that
the
white
men
were
about
to
leave
the
ship
through
fear
of
death
.
He
did
not
believe
it
now
.
There
might
have
been
secret
reasons
.
He
wagged
his
old
chin
knowingly
.
Aha
!
secret
reasons
.
He
was
a
man
of
great
experience
,
and
he
wanted
that
white
Tuan
to
know
--
he
turned
towards
Brierly
,
who
did
n't
raise
his
head
--
that
he
had
acquired
a
knowledge
of
many
things
by
serving
white
men
on
the
sea
for
a
great
number
of
years
--
and
,
suddenly
,
with
shaky
excitement
he
poured
upon
our
spellbound
attention
a
lot
of
queer-sounding
names
,
names
of
dead-and-gone
skippers
,
names
of
forgotten
country
ships
,
names
of
familiar
and
distorted
sound
,
as
if
the
hand
of
dumb
time
had
been
at
work
on
them
for
ages
.
They
stopped
him
at
last
.
A
silence
fell
upon
the
court
,
--
a
silence
that
remained
unbroken
for
at
least
a
minute
,
and
passed
gently
into
a
deep
murmur
.
This
episode
was
the
sensation
of
the
second
day
's
proceedings
--
affecting
all
the
audience
,
affecting
everybody
except
Jim
,
who
was
sitting
moodily
at
the
end
of
the
first
bench
,
and
never
looked
up
at
this
extraordinary
and
damning
witness
that
seemed
possessed
of
some
mysterious
theory
of
defence
.
'
So
these
two
lascars
stuck
to
the
helm
of
that
ship
without
steerage-way
,
where
death
would
have
found
them
if
such
had
been
their
destiny
.
The
whites
did
not
give
them
half
a
glance
,
had
probably
forgotten
their
existence
.
Assuredly
Jim
did
not
remember
it
.
He
remembered
he
could
do
nothing
;
he
could
do
nothing
,
now
he
was
alone
.
There
was
nothing
to
do
but
to
sink
with
the
ship
.
No
use
making
a
disturbance
about
it
.
Was
there
?
He
waited
upstanding
,
without
a
sound
,
stiffened
in
the
idea
of
some
sort
of
heroic
discretion
.
The
first
engineer
ran
cautiously
across
the
bridge
to
tug
at
his
sleeve
.
"'
Come
and
help
!
For
God
's
sake
,
come
and
help
!
"
