I took hold of myself, as it were, and glanced at him, in an apparently careless manner.
"Did I speak?" I asked.
"Yes, mate," he replied, eyeing me, curiously. "Yer said sumthin' about a crew."
"I must have been dreaming," I said; and rose up to put away my plate.
XIV
The Ghost Ships
At four o'clock, when again we went on deck, the Second Mate told me to go on with a paunch mat I was making; while Tammy, he sent to get out his sinnet. I had the mat slug on the fore side of the mainmast, between it and the after end of the house; and, in a few minutes, Tammy brought his sinnet and yarns to the mast, and made fast to one of the pins.
"What do you think it was, Jessop?" he asked, abruptly, after a short silence.
I looked at him.
"What do you think?" I replied.