Max Pemberton

Name: The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS"
Author: Max Pemberton

The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

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“The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS"”, published in 1901, is a work by Max Pemberton. It explores elements such as Kenner, Sheerness and skipper.

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ She had taken a pilot from the Solent, for her skipper, Roger Burke, a huge man from San Francisco, knew nothing of English waters, and the main part of the crew was made up of niggers and of lascars. She had for mate a slim, quiet man, named Parker; and her chief engineer was a Frenchman, whom she had picked up during a long cruise in the Pacific. Yet she had been built in the Thames for the American, Jake Kenner; and in the matter of speed, or, indeed, of design, she had few equals among pleasure boats. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ Can I be of no more use to him? Has not the time come for us to take different roads in life?
He was not the one to suffer any mere charity. The moment he was sure that Arnold Messenger had wearied of him he would make his own way, he declared. There were intervals when he was almost angry with the Prince for leaving him on Kenner's yacht. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ I bought him for a quarter share—as between you and me, Kenner—a month ago. He owes a matter of fifty thousand in London, and can't draw back—I've seen to that. He flew at the job almost before I'd opened my lips, and I'd trust him to the end of it. The other's a mere dummy, a numskull, who'll either cave in at the first show of fight or go under for his pains. It's the mate, as I said before, that's like to trouble us; the rest's a mere pleasure cruise."
And the destination?" asked the American. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ I had to promise him twenty thousand pounds and a couple of thousand per man for his crew——"
"Are they all swore to it?" asked Burke sharply.
"Why should they be—now?" answered Messenger. "Do we want them ladling it all over the town? But they're well chosen; and if there's to be trouble among them, it will come from the mate, Mike Brennan, a big honest fool, that I've talked to for a month, and made no more impression on than if he'd been cast-iron ballast."
"How many of 'em is to come aboard here?" asked Kenner somewhat anxiously. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ Have you got a man aboard here that you can't trust in the job, and if so, when are you going to send him ashore?"
Kenner did not answer the question himself, but turned to the skipper, Burke, who sat upon the edge of the bunk nursing his chin in his hand.
"Burke," said he, "that's your affair, I guess. What you don't know about them ain't worth the knowing." ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ At Sheerness we shall show a flare, when you, being ready to put out, will follow us as closely as common sense dictates until we stand well in the North Sea, and clear of ships. We shall shape a course full N.E. to be out of the track of steamers, and when we are ready for you, which will not be until we have passed Hull—we shall send up a couple of rockets, and you will answer and make fast alongside, while we come over and bring the money. ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ The great skipper shook his head, and leaned back on the sofa mystified.
"It's a job ez big ez oceans," said he, "and it's one chance in five hundred that he gets the leg of them. Don't you see that they may be on top of him long afore he's weathered London? By thunder! there ain't a man of us in it what hasn't got a rope round his gullet bought and paid for now, at the beginning of it—not a man of us!"
Kenner was not convinced.
"You don't know the Prince," said he; "it's got to be a fire-and-blazes police to go one better than him, any way." ”

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Max Pemberton, The Sea Wolves — III. ON BOARD THE "SEMIRAMIS" (1901)

“ In this mood he stood upon the poop of the Semiramis when Roger Burke, the skipper, went to the private cabin where Kenner sat. The two men were soon occupied in earnest conversation, the American having a long letter in cipher before him, as well as a telegram, with which he was more immediately concerned. ”

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