His Other Wife: A Novel — page 242: what you’re looking at

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234 A LAMB AND A WOLF. ‘But I do, though! The girl must take her chances with the Madcap. We've lost time enough with her already.” ‘You know very well it-can’t hurt us much if we do lose a little time.” ‘‘T know that I’m master here, and that I’ll have no more fooling.” The captain’s eye was savage enough now, and his voice had taken the low muttering sound that belonged to his most brutal and obstinate words. The mate knew that neither argument nor prayer would avail anything. It was now a question of submission, or of outright de- fiance of the superior authority which, by right of owners ‘ship and rank, belonged to the captain. As we have said before, Graff Conway had no fear of man or devil, and little enough of God, as his trade and general practice only tco well attested. Also his temper was none of the sweetest, when provoked by such in- sulting and uncalled for brutality as Valasco had just ex- hibited. Besides, he was fully determined to keep his word to the girl at all costs, and he did not believe that Valasco would come to open conflict if the point was made. He had his reasons for this conclusion. Acting upon it, he said, while the cold, metallic glitter lit his eye; ‘‘Yes, youre master of the ship, I know, but we'll make for the steamer all the same, or——” Graff Conway never finished his sentence; for, as he EComicbooks.com