Rickhart came straight for Stevey Todd, and handed him his passage
money.
"You're no passenger" he says. "You're a cook. You hear me!" Which
appeared like a rash statement, that Stevey Todd wasn't one to take
off-hand like that without argument, but Rickhart shoved him into the
galley before he got his ideas arranged right.
"You're the _Jane Allen's_ cook," says Rickhart, and appeared
to be right, though his style of argument wasn't what Clyde had
trained us to. Stevey Todd had no proper outfit to meet it. The
victuals he had to serve up on the _Jane Allen_ was a worriment
to his conscience too, being tainted and bad, and by-and-by I came
down too with ship's fever, and Craney got sicker again with scurvy.
There's a long promontory, that the coasters see on the West Coast
of South America near the Line, with a square white tower on a bit of
high rock at the head of it. The promontory is called Mituas, and the
point, Punta Ananias. That may be because some one ran aground
sometime on the sand-bar off the end, and thought it deceitful. Some
people say the tower was built as an outlook against pirates long
ago, but I judge the facts are everybody has forgotten who built it
or what he did it for.
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