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? ? ? ? 'I won't be mate on this hell-ship!' I cried defiantly.

? ? ? ? I saw his face grow hard and the merciless glitter come into his eyes. He walked to the door of his room, saying:

? ? ? ? 'And now, Mr. Van Weyden, good night.'

? ? ? ? 'Good night, Mr. Larsen,' I answered weakly.

Chapter Sixteen

? ? ? ? I CANNOT SAY THAT THE POSITION Of mate carried with it anything more joyful than that there were no more dishes to wash. I was ignorant of the simplest duties of mate, and would have fared badly indeed had not the sailors sympathized with me. I knew nothing of the minutiae of ropes and rigging, of the trimming and setting of sails; but the sailors took pains to put me to rights, Louis proving a specially good teacher, and I had little trouble with those under me.

? ? ? ? With the hunters it was otherwise. Familiar in varying degree with the sea, they took me as a sort of joke.


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