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"All right then, Croaker, I'll call Ringdo, an' feed him your dinner.",The deacon sat silent, thinking. "What's their game, Tom?" he asked suddenly.,"I was determined to try. I could see no other way of frightening and disgusting him.","I don't know, sir. I'll ascertain, sir," and the man disappeared.,"I saw her," said Mr Lawrence. "She is on her hands and knees. What did you say?","Who is to work the ship for him?" asked Pledge. "For you may depend upon it that if the crew are to be carried away to an unbeknown place, they'll all go below to a man, for Jack's as good as his master when it comes to his having to do something which he didn't agree for.",Mr Lawrence, with a ridiculing smile, said: "What do you know about waiting on people in the cabins of ships?",Anson eyed him suspiciously, then turned to his mother. "I wish't you'd do our dinners up separate, Ma," he whined.,The breakfast bell at this moment summoned them from the lawn. At table Captain Acton said that he had asked Mr Lawrence to meet him at his office down on the quay at half-past ten. This office was in a little house a few minutes' walk from the warehouses. Captain Acton employed a person who looked after his affairs, who, with the assistance of a[Pg 82] couple of clerks, saw to the delivery and loading of cargoes, to the needs of the ships in respect of gear, canvas, carpenters' and boatswains' stores, and so forth. But not the less did the gallant Captain take an interest in his own business. He was laudably anxious to promote the prosperity of Old Harbour and Old Harbour Town, but though he was a rich man—a very rich man indeed in those days, having come into a fortune of eighty thousand pounds, together with the finely wooded and beautiful freehold estate known as Old Harbour House—he was by no means disposed to lose money in marine speculation; so he kept a keen eye upon the books, examined narrowly all the demands which were made for the ship's furniture, closely watched the markets in rum, sugar, and coffee, and having a clear perception of the risks of war, justly appraised the value of his tonnage to those who desired consignments through his bottoms.,"I'll teach you to smoke on the sly, you young outlaw, you!",The Admiral might have been observed to be calculating by the movement of his lips. "It will be a run, then," said he, "of about forty days.",Come, let us be glad—both togither, me lad—.