One-eyed Mauger sought out Brander three days later. Brander had been
decent to him from the beginning; and Mauger, who had been changed from
a venomous and evil thing into a cacklingly cheerful nonentity by Noll
Wing's blow and kick, repaid Brander with a devotion almost inhuman. He
sought out Brander three days later.... That is to say, he made
occasion, during the work of scrubbing up after Noll's last whale, to
come to Brander's feet; and while he toiled at the planking of the deck
there, he looked up at the fourth mate and nodded significantly.
Brander understood the one-eyed man; he asked: "What's wrong, Mauger?"
His tone was friendly.
Mauger chuckled mirthlessly, deprecatingly. "Don't want you should git
mad," he protested.