By the World Forgot

goad him into revolt inflamed the passion and developed the animosity and hatred of Woywod. The mate was perfectly willing and, indeed, anxious to manhandle Beekman, but that little fun

udy the position in which he found himself more carefully. Among other things, he decided to make himself popular with the crew, and to do it by gaining their respect. Unlike Ancient Pistol, he would be by no means "base, comm

uld gain the universal approval of so many men so radically different. In little ways that fact presently became apparent to the quarter deck, and Woywod resented that especially. It irked him exceedingly that a man against whom he imagined he had a just cause f

every passing hour. It became increasingly hard for him to control himself and to follow out his course in the face of Woywod's constant endeavors to arouse

, the brutal blackguarding, the foul language of Woywod, to say nothing of the exactions, the unfair and almost impossible tasks that were heaped upon him. And Salver, taking his cue from his superior, did his little best to make life

s of persisting in his story, and he had made no further references to it among the crew after that first day, but with Gersey he made an exception. The old boatswain was shrewd and worldly wise in a guileless sort of way. The two had many long talks together, and the younger had at last su

the consent and approval of Fish, could be depended upon to stop it. Beekman had talked that matter over with Gersey, and he had given the boatswain an address and a message which the old man had laboriously committed to memory. If Beekman were kept on the ship, Gersey would send the cable from Vladivostok, or

age was a quick one, and the ship fairly comfortable, by the time the cruise drew on

el, so they had to face a long beat up to the line. Gale succeeded gale. Such weather was unprecedented. It had never been heard of by the oldest and most experienced seamen on board. The men were worn out; their nerves on ragged edge. The severe straining the ship had got

buck the center on a football team, but a marvelously speedy end, and a champion at the lighter forms of athletics demanding agility, alertness, and skill. I

unds heavier and several inches taller, to say nothing of broader shouldered, than Beekman, the latter began to feel that in a twenty-foot ring with foul fighting barred, he could master the officer. There was no possibility of a meeting of that kind, howeve

he ordinary and extraordinary duties of a sailor; who could get to the main royal yard or the flying jibboom end as quickly as any man on the ship; who could pass a weather earring in a howling gale as securely as the most accomplished seaman; who could do his trick at the wheel and hold her up to her course against a bucking, jumping head sea with the best q

r on the part of the Dutchman was treated as a crime. He was rope's ended, rattaned, kicked, beaten like a dog. Only a certain slow, stubborn obstinacy and determination in his disposition kept the unfortunate man from jumping overboard. Probably if Be

and over every bit of every rope belayed to the iron pins in the fife-rails with him. When Wramm once got a thing in his head after a slow process, it was apt to stay there, and the Dutchman finally be

the taking in of sail. As usual, Captain Fish, annoyed beyond measure at his bad luck and the head winds, had been holding on to take advantage of a favorabl

aring up through the darkness at the jumping, quivering to'gall'nt masts, decided that the time had come to furl the light canvas and take a double reef in the tops'ls, in preparation for the blow obviously

lver went forward to the forecastle to attend to the foremast. Mr. Woywod, in the natural bad humor that comes to any one who is awakened from a sound sleep in the only four hours of that particular night appointed for rest, took charge

s watches in the night before. He slept like a log. Woywod saw that he was not at his place at the main fife-rail. Just before the order was given for the light yard and topmen to lay aloft and furl and reef, Woywod, raging like a lion, discovered Wramm sleeping in the lee scuppers und

again, the men at the lee and weather braces, supposing everything was right, easing off and rounding in, respectively, until the yard whirled about, pointing nearly fore and aft. The starboard to'gall'nt sheet gave way first under the drag of the main tops'l yard, but not before the tremendous pressure of the

had occurred, as every experienced man on the ship had done, had leaped to the fife-rail, with a roar of rage, and had struck the bewildered Dutchman, almost unaware of what had happened, with a belaying pin, which he drew from the rail, and had

back to the rail, leaped to the deck, and had run to the prostrate form of poor Wramm, which he had dragged out of the way of the men, who had seized the halliards at the mate's call

tch below dismissed for the hour of rest that still remained to them, Woywod came f

ess of which also characterized him typically--"who caused a perfectly good mainto'gall'nt

s expressed hate as well as the growl of a baited animal does. Woywod was no coward. He was afraid of

cultivated voice which Woywod hated to hear. "I

ps the crack in his thick sku

r," answered Beekman, with just an

. "Show a light here," he continued, coming down to the deck and bending over the man. "One of you wash the blood off his face," he said, after careful inspection. "I'l

rmed, although he did h

aid Beekman, "but I want

got to s

speak to

now. Come to th

speak to hi

shouted Templin, one of the

a cue, the whole watch

t with him to sp

robbing with indignation and resentment. "Mr. Woywod will grant my request. T

f Wramm and decided that perhaps it would be best for him to temporize. He wanted to strike Beekman down, and if it had not been for

ly, "and is willin' to see you, you can speak t

e, sir," said Beekman. "He'll undoubtedly w

tell

tell him

uted Woywod, ra

ved. The men cam

ight to see the master of the ship, an' w

s," cried Woywod,

overawed, and they

Beekman, "an' you'll be

in Fish seated at the cabin table, on which a huge joint of cold meat and bread were spread out, with some bottles and glasses to bear them co

about that infernal lubber that caused

ndin' to see you an' p'r'aps he

ith?" said the

doctor, but so near as I can make out he has a fractured skul

hat condition?" a

ck him over the head with a belaying p

ringing forward, "you dare

man. Are you aware--you pretend to be a gentleman of education--that your language

ho has been hazed to death every day of this cruise by your bl

out for yourself ra

t man dies, I'm going to bring a charge of murder against this bullying sc

had vanished in thin air. The cumulative repression of three months ha

hink I'll allow any wharf rat like you to talk like that to me on my own ship? I've no doubt but that thick-headed Dutchman will recover, but whether he does or not I'll dea

him alone. I've been itchin' fer this chance ever since he came aboard. Now, S

d him. Beekman did n

shouted, "if I have to die f

d to the mate on the day that he waked up and found himself shanghaied. Three months of hard work and clean living and plain food had made a different man of him. Woywod was lucky.

in over the combing of the skylight. There was a trample of feet on the deck above. Salver himself appeared on the companion ladder, but Woywod had

he cried, as he raised the weapon, b

alt beef on the table. Beekman clutched it, and as Woywod pulled the tr