CHAPTER V
Jarrow Does and Says Queer Things
Mr. Peth was slinking about the bar like a leopard on a still hunt when Captain Jarrow returned from his conference which resulted in a tentative charter of the Nuestra Señora del Rosario, with himself as master and Peth as mate.
Jarrow was in a state bordering between exhaltation at his success and collapse over the narrow margin by which he had put through a deal which at one time appeared as elusive as a chimera.
"Give me a Picon, and make it strong," said Jarrow to the bar-boy, disregarding Peth, while he scrubbed his face with a handkerchief.
"Hook up?" asked Peth, edging along the bar until he had an elbow against Jarrow's side.
"Mighty Nelson!" whispered Jarrow. "It was a lee shore, and no mistake. Looney lied."