“Swab!” said Jude, “are you going to pay them that thousand dollars back? I’d sooner chuck it in the lagoon!”
“I’d pay a thousand dollars to see Cark done in the eye,” replied Satan. “Where’s the damage? I’ve hived more than two thousand dollars’ worth of stuff off that blistered derelic’. You leave them cusses to me.”
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE FIGHT
As they watched Sellers pulling back they saw the Juan drop a boat.
“Hullo!” said Satan.
He put the glass to his eye.
“Cark’s coming off. He’s in the sternsheets, him and his patch—what’s up now?”
The two boats approached one another, and then hung together, evidently in consultation. Then the oars took the water and they approached the Sarah, Sellers leading. Satan, who had found a piece of chewing gum in his pocket, put it into his mouth and began to chew, leisurely, like a cow on her cud, while he watched the approaching boats.