Now, as the brig plunged, Abe Guptil stumbled while crossing the cabin and fell to his knees, yet made out by a desperate effort both to hold his tray upright and to keep the dishes from sliding off against the bulkhead.
"Bravo!" cried Gideon North.
"Yes, sir," Abe replied, brightly, "that was a clever one and I'm proud of it."
It had been impossible to teach him the manners of his new work, but we cared little about that.
"Hark!" said Faith. "What was the noise?"
"Nothing, so far as I know," Captain North replied. "How she pitches and jumps! Give me a ship under sail, steadied by the wind abeam."
"I've heard Bud O'Hara use them very words," said Gleazen.
Again silence followed the man's ill-chosen remark.
"When we have put our passengers ashore," Arnold began with a significant glance at Gleazen, "shall we—"
"Captain North!"