H. Bedford-Jones

Name: South, West and North — Bound South. II
Author: H. Bedford-Jones

South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

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“South, West and North — Bound South. II”, published in 1924, is a work by H. Bedford-Jones. It explores elements such as Hampton, Job Warlock and Jed Barnes.

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ Dick Hampton was taken back by this meeting, back across a year's time to that terrible winter's voyage from Bristol to Rio—an ice-sheeted ship, hammering through gales on gales with storm jib and to'gallant close-reefed barely keeping her but from under the roaring seas, and green water rolling waist-high across the decks. There men suffered or died, worked, sang, kept the ship going, saved each other, laughed or whimpered. Those tremendous arms of Job Warlock had saved Dick Hampton more than once, and more than once had Hampton's wide shoulders and lightning agility repaid the debt. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ A mile or so distant was the place he called home, with a jeer in his heart at the word. He had no affection for it, or for the man who lived there; none received, none given. If he went on, he anticipated biting words, harsh words, a flame of anger rising in him against the dour and godly man who lived by the letter of the Scriptures and knew not the spirit which lay behind them.
Of his own will, Hampton would have avoided all this. He would have gone on to Beverly, where he knew that, welcome or not, certain work awaited him. Yet duty impelled him home. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ Hampton nodded.
“Beverly is a town north o' Salem. You can find Foster & Levett's wharf easy enough. Meet me on that wharf tomorrow night—say, eight o'clock.”
“Right, matey.”
“You have money?”
“Plenty. The world's a good place, so hurray! See you later.”
Hampton turned toward the road. Even if his worst fears were true, even if duty led him by the hard path, even if one had gone out of his life for ever—here another had come back into it with warmth of friendship. He was not minded to lose Job Warlock, as he had probably lost Nelly Barnes. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ And, seeing that these twain were on their way to Beverly, he knew that James Day had spoken truth.
Jed Barnes was a hard, ruthless, utterly honest attorney who had never prospered at his profession. Fortunately he had farms outside Salem which paid him good money. Between him and Dick Hampton was no lost love. Barnes regarded all seamen as roaring runagates certain of eternal damnation, and Hampton in particular as a bucko mate, a killer of men; for this jaundiced regard there was a reason, though it lay not in Hampton's keeping. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ His will drove him onward, while his emotions flayed him without mercy. The adventurer and lover in him was crying out for Beverly, thirsting for that brig bound south to Chagres, and now more than ever in this terrible moment when he knew definitely that Nelly Barnes would be aboard her. Hampton knew only too well to what a hell the Beverly Panama Gold Company was departing, and in James Day he had singularly little faith—for some very obscure reason. It meant nothing to Hampton that the stooped man on the wagon hated him; he felt curiously above Jed Barnes. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ I'd sooner be a Blackwall packet-rat than skipper o' the best Chagres brig afloat! And so you would, too.”
“I'm not offered any command—it's fourth mate's berth.” Hampton pulled at his pipe. “There's more things in life than fine ships, Job.”
“Hm!” Job Warlock studied him reflectively, then his swart features puckered up in shrewd surmise. “Ye've gone the way of all men, then; that's clear. There's a girl in it somewhere. —— the women! Aye, there's a lass in it. Ye've too much sense to ship for Chagres, otherwise, for ye know that hell-hole well enough. Still, the west coast's not so bad. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ I've waited for the day I could come to the home ye told me of, lad, and ask word of ye.”
“But—here in this thicket?” Hampton sat down on some spread evergreens, and glanced around. “Why in these trees, Job Warlock? The farm's not far away——”
“Not far is far enough, as the Injun said when he rubbed his belly.” Warlock, stooping over the fire, looked up and chuckled. “Your daddy, bless his soul, wanted no heathen foreign man wi' hoops in ears to be hanging about his door, and said so. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ What would Jed Barnes say, did he know of the invitation from James Day? Enough and to spare, no doubt. Barnes was like all the other greenhorns, taking a wagon filled with flour-barrels and other truck to ship to Eldorado. Flour! Why, there was a street in 'Frisco town paved with that useless stuff—spoiled and laid to fill the sand. Hampton had met a man in Havana, just back from Chagres and the other side, who had cursed the golden land most horribly, telling bare tales of its realities. Here, however, no man would believe these things, at least until another year or two ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, South, West and North — Bound South… (1924)

“ The world's a good place, so hurray! Day's the name—a privateer out o' the Argentine, they said, but more like a pirate, and had a fast schooner, heavy-armed. He looted here and there along the southern coasts. ”

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