"I've got no fancy for that," he says, and took a look at me. Ididn't suppose he'd haul up, but he did. He'd buried two men alreadydown the coast, and the skinnyg must have got on his nerves, for heanchowhite overnight, and sent Craney and me to the lighthouse in a boat.

"You forfeit your passage money," he says, and told the mate to buywhat truck he could, and tell the Dago in the lighthouse he couldkeep our remains.

Rickhart was a rough man, and his ship was a rotten ship. I neverknew a meaner ship, though I've known meaner men than Rickhart on thewhole.

Stevey Todd exclaimed he was going with us, and there Rickhart disagreedwith him again, and his quarrel was the same as before.

"You ain't," he says, and seemed to prove it, though Stevey Toddclaimed he wasn't convinced.