Sea Bride
The Sea Bride
作者：Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953
体例：题 章数：215
字数：354,869 来源：Project Gutenberg
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章节目录
共 215 题- THE SEA BRIDE
- Published by Arrangement with The Macmillan Company
- THE SEA BRIDE
- Dr. Brant nodded. "No fear, my friend," he said. "Faith is a woman...."
- He nodded. "Get to bed," he said. "I'll be down."
- II
- III
- He chuckled acridly. "Aye--but what if he's dead afore it?"
- IV
- He said thickly: "That damned rat won't try that on me again...."
- He jerked away from her. "What?"
- She smiled faintly, shook her head. "No, Noll...."
- He was stubborn. "Yes. Why not? I've...."
- He said hotly: "Let them. They're sneaking, spineless things...."
- VI
- Faith knew she must speak. She said quietly: "Dan'l.... That is not...."
- She said simply: "Dan'l, my friend, I love Noll Wing with all my heart."
- VII
- She hesitated. "I--want to go ashore," she said. "Won't you go with me?"
- VIII
- She nodded. "It's delicious...."
- He said quickly: "You being here means that a ship is in, of course."
- Faith looked at him curiously. "But--what happened? Was she lost?..."
- IX
- Brander said pleasantly: "To ship with you."
- Dan'l Tobey heard. "He's asleep," he told Mr. Ham. "Who is this?"
- The mate said: "He wants to ship. Says he was on the _Thomas Morgan_."
- Dan'l drawled: "Beach comber.... Eh?"
- Faith said quietly: "I spoke for him. It seems to me he does his work."
- The mate nodded seriously. "I'll watch him, sir."
- Faith smiled at him; he said pleasantly: "The man sings well."
- Roy flamed at him. "All right.... Keep it to yourself."
- Roy's cheeks began to burn. "Brander.... What did Brander say?"
- Roy said hotly: "By God, I won't have them talking about my sister...."
- Dan'l caught his arm. "Wait...."
- Brander nodded pleasantly; he said: "Yes, sir."
- Brander looked around. "Yes, sir."
- Mr. Ham called: "We'll gally the sparm...."
- XI
- Faith said: "Roy, be still."
- Dan'l nodded. "Just that. You cut, I see. Why was that, now?"
- XII
- He said harshly: "You heard what I told Tichel? Leave it to me."
- Noll nodded. "All right, Mr. Tichel. If you have, say out."
- Dan'l smiled. "You might well enough ask, Mr. Cox."
- Dan'l said harshly: "I never heard that Noll Wing feared any man."
- Noll smiled. "Age brings wisdom, Dan'l. I'm learning to fear.... So...."
- XIII
- Brander looked up quickly, smiled. "No, sir," he said. "I...."
- And Dan'l got hold of himself; he said respectfully: "Right, sir."
- Brander said respectfully: "No, sir. I'll do as you say."
- Dan'l said: "He meant no harm, sir. I'm sure of it...."
- Noll whirled on him. "Then why did you run to me?"
- XIV
- Brander said respectfully: "I'm sorry. I should have...."
- Brander shook his head. "No, sir."
- Brander, at Noll's heels, asked: "Do we lower?"
- Noll nodded fretfully. "All right, all right. Send him...."
- XV
- Brander nodded. "Yes, sir, quite sure."
- Brander smiled. "That's the maximum, of course."
- Dan'l Tobey said: "You've done the rest of us a service, Mr. Brander."
- Noll nodded. "Oh, aye.... No doubt!"
- Noll wagged his head dolefully: "Aye, but will the man see it that way?"
- Dan'l snorted. "Mauger! Pshaw!"
- Faith smiled a little. "You think Brander means to do that?"
- XVI
- She laughed softly. "No. I don't like to do hard things--like that."
- She looked at him. "Do you think so?"
- XVII
- Roy shook his head. "No."
- She looked up at him. "Studying navigation, Roy. Don't you want to?"
- He stared at her. "What are you doing it for?"
- XVIII
- Noll had so nearly forgotten that he asked: "Think better of what, man?"
- Noll cried: "Fin out, by God. He's dead...."
- XIX
- Brander shook his head, his eyes sobering. "Of course not. What is it?"
- Brander's voice fell. "Who?"
- Dan'l would not meet Noll's eyes. "Why, lies," he said. "Chatter."
- Noll said heavily: "I'm not a man to be put off, Dan'l. Speak up, man."
- Brander nodded. "Wood and stores, sir, I suppose."
- He said quietly: "I take that responsibility, sir."
- XX
- Noll looked at him dully. "About who, Dan'l?"
- Noll dropped his head. "I don't like the man."
- Noll waved a hand fretfully. "He's too much with the crew, Mr. Tobey."
- Dan'l said reluctantly: "Well, sir, maybe they'd jump quicker for him."
- Noll said heavily: "I'll watch her eyes, Dan'l."
- Noll came to his feet with sudden rage in him. "Have done, Dan'l. I...."
- He said hoarsely: "Faith.... By God...."
- XXI
- XXII
- Brander knew the voice. Mauger's. He said: "Yes...."
- Brander said quietly: "Yes, sir, all right."
- And one-eyed Mauger interrupted loyally: "No, he didn't. Didn't...."
- Dan'l looked at the one-eyed man. "How do you know?"
- Dan'l smiled unpleasantly. "All right; but Mauger says he did it."
- Faith's eyes were troubled. "You say the men had been drinking?"
- She said steadily: "Mauger, where did the men get the liquor?"
- She nodded at once. "Of course.... Thank you, Tinch."
- Noll said sullenly: "Well, if he says he done it, he done it."
- Dan'l said steadily: "All right; I say Mauger did it."
- Dan'l nodded. "Oh, aye...."
- Dan'l suggested awkwardly: "You--think he's telling truth?"
- Faith nodded. "Any one can see that...."
- Noll asked heavily: "What's the boy.... Go along, Dan'l. Fetch him."
- Roy cried, on the instant: "That's a lie."
- Roy was near tears with bafflement. "Why.... What makes you...."
- Faith asked quietly: "Don't you want to tell?"
- Roy insisted. "I tell you, I didn't...."
- XXIII
- Faith said: "Mr. Brander, I'm going to ask you to help me."
- Brander told her: "I'd like to. What is it you want done?"
- Brander said quietly: "Yes."
- Noll sat up stupidly. "What? Hear what?... What's that you say?"
- Dan'l had wit to seize his fortune; he cried out: "By God, sir...."
- XXIV
- She nodded. "All right. Do."
- She smiled at him. "I married you, Noll."
- XXV
- Brander shook his head, smiling. "Thanks; no, sir."
- Faith asked sharply: "What is it, Noll?"
- Faith cried: "Thank God!"
- Dan'l shook his head. "Not with this gale, sir.... We're going away...."
- Faith protested: "Noll, she'll never stand...."
- XXVI
- She shook her head. "No.... Noll's own terrors. Noll was mad...."
- Dan'l said sullenly: "You're not over concerned for Noll's going."
- Dan'l smiled. "And--how?..."
- He chuckled. "Oh, aye.... We'll try."
- He smiled. "What, then?"
- Dan'l chuckled. "An easterly'll drive her high and dry, 'fore then."
- Faith asked the one-eyed man: "Where did you get it, Mauger?"
- Dan'l nodded. "But it'd not be in them," he said. "That's sure enough."
- XXVII
- She looked at him, a little wistfully. "You're not denying it's yours?"
- She nodded. "Yes."
- She looked at him in honest surprise. "I kissed you, Dan'l?"
- She shook her head. "I don't remember ... at all."
- She shook her head. "No, Dan'l. Have done."
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- Brander told Faith: "He's got to lose either leg or life."
- Brander bent over the man. "I'll do my best for you."
- He nodded. "I knew you knew."
- THE END
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