'An' it's you that asks me! 'T is not what I mean, but what the Wolf'll mean. The Wolf, I said, the Wolf!'
? ? ? ? 'If trouble comes, will you stand by?' asked impulsively, for he had voiced my own fear.
? ? ? ? 'Stand by? 'T is old fat Louis I stand by, an' trouble enough it'll be. We're at the beginnin' of things, I'm tellin' ye, the bare beginnin' of things.'
? ? ? ? 'I had not thought you so great a coward,' I sneered.
? ? ? ? He favored me with a contemptuous stare.
? ? ? ? 'If I raised never a hand for that poor fool,'- pointing astern to the tiny sail,- 'd' ye think I'm hungerin' for a broken head for a woman I never laid me eyes upon before this day?'
? ? ? ? I turned scornfully away and went aft.
? ? ? ? 'Better get in those topsails, Mr. Van Weyden,' Wolf Larsen said, as I came on the poop.
? ? ? ? I felt relief, at least as far as the two men were concerned. I had scarcely opened my mouth to issue the necessary commands, when eager men were springing to halyards and downhauls, and others were racing aloft.
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