pretend to touch it. All I want is to convince the others that it’s against your interest to split. Self-interest is the one motive they understand. Your bare word would be good enough for me.”
“Suppose I won’t give my bare word?” said I, in a gentle manner which I did not mean to be as irritating as it doubtless was. Yet his proposals and his assumptions were between them making me irritable in my turn.
“For Heaven’s sake don’t be such an idiot, Cole!” he burst out in a passion. “You know I’m
None spoke; all seemed waiting; and all were silent but the captain, whose vulgar champing reached me through the crazy lattice, as I stood spellbound and petrified without.
They say that a drowning man lives his life again before the last; but my own fight with the sea provided me with no such moments