CHAPTER XIX.
PEARL HAWLINSHED RESORTS TO VIOLENCE.
"Hallo! is that you, Dory Dornwood?" shouted Pearl Hawlinshed, as the Goldwing came within hail of the steamer. "Come alongside, and take me on board!"
"All right!" replied the skipper of the schooner, as he hauled in the sheets with all his might.
"Take me on board, and I will make it all right with you," continued Pearl, who did not seem to believe that Dory intended to take him on board.
The skipper had brought the boat about so that all her sails were shaking, but she had headway enough to carry her to the port quarter of the steamer.
"Be all ready to jump on board when I come up alongside," called Dory.
"Are you going off to leave us, now that you have got us into this scrape?" demanded Captain Vesey, springing to his feet; for he had evidently been asleep on the quarter-deck.
"I am going to get a steamer to drag you off this shoal," replied Pearl. "I will come back in a couple of hours or so."
"You may forget to come," added Mr. Button, the engineer. "I think you had better pay me the five dollars you owe me before we part company."