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diff --git a/old/12121.txt b/old/12121.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01897b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/12121.txt @@ -0,0 +1,993 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lady of the Barge, by W.W. Jacobs + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lady of the Barge + Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 1. + +Author: W.W. Jacobs + +Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12121] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LADY OF THE BARGE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +THE LADY OF THE BARGE + +AND OTHER STORIES + +By W. W. Jacobs + + + + +THE LADY OF THE BARGE + + +The master of the barge Arabella sat in the stern of his craft with his +right arm leaning on the tiller. A desultory conversation with the mate +of a schooner, who was hanging over the side of his craft a few yards +off, had come to a conclusion owing to a difference of opinion on the +subject of religion. The skipper had argued so warmly that he almost +fancied he must have inherited the tenets of the Seventh-day Baptists +from his mother while the mate had surprised himself by the warmth of his +advocacy of a form of Wesleyanism which would have made the members of +that sect open their eyes with horror. He had, moreover, confirmed the +skipper in the error of his ways by calling him a bargee, the ranks of +the Baptists receiving a defender if not a recruit from that hour. + +With the influence of the religious argument still upon him, the skipper, +as the long summer's day gave place to night, fell to wondering where his +own mate, who was also his brother-in-law, had got to. Lights which had +been struggling with the twilight now burnt bright and strong, and the +skipper, moving from the shadow to where a band of light fell across the +deck, took out a worn silver watch and saw that it was ten o'clock. + +Almost at the same moment a dark figure appeared on the jetty above and +began to descend the ladder, and a strongly built young man of twenty-two +sprang nimbly to the deck. + +"Ten o'clock, Ted," said the skipper, slowly. "It 'll be eleven in an +hour's time," said the mate, calmly. + +"That 'll do," said the skipper, in a somewhat loud voice, as he noticed +that his late adversary still occupied his favourite strained position, +and a fortuitous expression of his mother's occurred to him: "Don't talk +to me; I've been arguing with a son of Belial for the last half-hour." + +"Bargee," said the son of Belial, in a dispassionate voice. + +"Don't take no notice of him, Ted," said the skipper, pityingly. + +"He wasn't talking to me," said Ted. "But never mind about him; I want +to speak to you in private." + +"Fire away, my lad," said the other, in a patronizing voice. + +"Speak up," said the voice from the schooner, encouragingly. "I'm +listening." + +There was no reply from the bargee. The master led the way to the cabin, +and lighting a lamp, which appealed to more senses than one, took a seat +on a locker, and again requested the other to fire away. + +"Well, you see, it's this way," began the mate, with a preliminary +wriggle: "there's a certain young woman--" + +"A certain young what?" shouted the master of the Arabella. + +"Woman," repeated the mate, snappishly; "you've heard of a woman afore, +haven't you? Well, there's a certain young woman I'm walking out +with I--" + +"Walking out?" gasped the skipper. "Why, I never 'eard o' such a +thing." + +"You would ha' done if you'd been better looking, p'raps," retorted the +other. "Well, I've offered this young woman to come for a trip with us." + +"Oh, you have, 'ave you!" said the skipper, sharply. "And what do you +think Louisa will say to it?" + +"That's your look out," said Louisa's brother, cheerfully. "I'll make +her up a bed for'ard, and we'll all be as happy as you please." + +He started suddenly. The mate of the schooner was indulging in a series +of whistles of the most amatory description. + +"There she is," he said. "I told her to wait outside." + +He ran upon deck, and his perturbed brother-in-law, following at his +leisure, was just in time to see him descending the ladder with a young +woman and a small handbag. + +"This is my brother-in-law, Cap'n Gibbs," said Ted, introducing the new +arrival; "smartest man at a barge on the river." + +The girl extended a neatly gloved hand, shook the skipper's affably, and +looked wonderingly about her. + +"It's very close to the water, Ted," she said, dubiously. + +The skipper coughed. "We don't take passengers as a rule," he said, +awkwardly; "we 'ain't got much convenience for them." + +"Never mind," said the girl, kindly; "I sha'nt expect too much." + +She turned away, and following the mate down to the cabin, went into +ecstasies over the space-saving contrivances she found there. The +drawers fitted in the skipper's bunk were a source of particular +interest, and the owner watched with strong disapprobation through the +skylight her efforts to make him an apple-pie bed with the limited means +at her disposal. He went down below at once as a wet blanket. + +"I was just shaking your bed up a bit," said Miss Harris, reddening. + +"I see you was," said the skipper, briefly. + +He tried to pluck up courage to tell her that he couldn't take her, but +only succeeded in giving vent to an inhospitable cough. + +"I'll get the supper," said the mate, suddenly; "you sit down, old man, +and talk to Lucy." + +In honour of the visitor he spread a small cloth, and then proceeded to +produce cold beef, pickles, and accessories in a manner which reminded +Miss Harris of white rabbits from a conjurer's hat. Captain Gibbs, +accepting the inevitable, ate his supper in silence and left them to +their glances. + +"We must make you up a bed, for'ard, Lucy," said the mate, when they had +finished. + +Miss Harris started. "Where's that?" she inquired. + +"Other end o' the boat," replied the mate, gathering up some bedding +under his arm. "You might bring a lantern, John." + +The skipper, who was feeling more sociable after a couple of glasses of +beer, complied, and accompanied the couple to the tiny forecastle. A +smell compounded of bilge, tar, paint, and other healthy disinfectants +emerged as the scuttle was pushed back. The skipper dangled the lantern +down and almost smiled. + +"I can't sleep there," said the girl, with decision. "I shall die o' +fright." + +"You'll get used to it," said Ted, encouragingly, as he helped her down; +"it's quite dry and comfortable." + +He put his arm round her waist and squeezed her hand, and aided by this +moral support, Miss Harris not only consented to remain, but found +various advantages in the forecastle over the cabin, which had escaped +the notice of previous voyagers. + +"I'll leave you the lantern," said the mate, making it fast, "and we +shall be on deck most o' the night. We get under way at two." + +He quitted the forecastle, followed by the skipper, after a polite but +futile attempt to give him precedence, and made his way to the cabin for +two or three hours' sleep. + +"There'll be a row at the other end, Ted," said the skipper, nervously, +as he got into his bunk. "Louisa's sure to blame me for letting you keep +company with a gal like this. We was talking about you only the other +day, and she said if you was married five years from now, it 'ud be quite +soon enough." + +"Let Loo mind her own business," said the mate, sharply; "she's not going +to nag me. She's not my wife, thank goodness!" + +He turned over and fell fast asleep, waking up fresh and bright three +hours later, to commence what he fondly thought would be the pleasantest +voyage of his life. + +The Arabella dropped slowly down with the tide, the wind being so light +that she was becalmed by every tall warehouse on the way. Off Greenwich, +however, the breeze freshened somewhat, and a little later Miss Harris, +looking somewhat pale as to complexion and untidy as to hair, came slowly +on deck. + +"Where's the looking-glass?" she asked, as Ted hastened to greet her. +"How does my hair look?" + +"All wavy," said the infatuated young man; "all little curls and +squiggles. Come down in the cabin; there's a glass there." + +Miss Harris, with a light nod to the skipper as he sat at the tiller, +followed the mate below, and giving vent to a little cry of indignation +as she saw herself in the glass, waved the amorous Ted on deck, and +started work on her disarranged hair. + +At breakfast-time a little friction was caused by what the mate bitterly +termed the narrow-minded, old-fashioned ways of the skipper. He had +arranged that the skipper should steer while he and Miss Harris +breakfasted, but the coffee was no sooner on the table than the skipper +called him, and relinquishing the helm in his favour, went below to do +the honours. The mate protested. + +"It's not proper," said the skipper. "Me and 'er will 'ave our meals +together, and then you must have yours. She's under my care." + +Miss Harris assented blithely, and talk and laughter greeted the ears of +the indignant mate as he steered. He went down at last to cold coffee +and lukewarm herrings, returning to the deck after a hurried meal to find +the skipper narrating some of his choicest experiences to an audience +which hung on his lightest word. + +The disregard they showed for his feelings was maddening, and for the +first time in his life he became a prey to jealousy in its worst form. +It was quite clear to him that the girl had become desperately enamoured +of the skipper, and he racked his brain in a wild effort to discover the +reason. + +With an idea of reminding his brother-in-law of his position, he alluded +two or three times in a casual fashion to his wife. The skipper hardly +listened to him, and patting Miss Harris's cheek in a fatherly manner, +regaled her with an anecdote of the mate's boyhood which the latter had +spent a goodly portion of his life in denying. He denied it again, +hotly, and Miss Harris, conquering for a time her laughter, reprimanded +him severely for contradicting. + +By the time dinner was ready he was in a state of sullen apathy, and when +the meal was over and the couple came on deck again, so far forgot +himself as to compliment Miss Harris upon her appetite. + +"I'm ashamed of you, Ted," said the skipper, with severity. + +"I'm glad you know what shame is," retorted the mate. + +"If you can't be'ave yourself, you'd better keep a bit for'ard till you +get in a better temper," continued the skipper. + +"I'll be pleased to," said the smarting mate. "I wish the barge was +longer." + +"It couldn't be too long for me," said Miss Harris, tossing her head. + +"Be'aving like a schoolboy," murmured the skipper. + +"I know how to behave _my_-self," said the mate, as he disappeared below. +His head suddenly appeared again over the companion. "If some people +don't," he added, and disappeared again. + +He was pleased to notice as he ate his dinner that the giddy prattle +above had ceased, and with his back turned toward the couple when he +appeared on deck again, he lounged slowly forward until the skipper +called him back again. + +"Wot was them words you said just now, Ted?" he inquired. + +The mate repeated them with gusto. + +"Very good," said the skipper, sharply; "very good." + +"Don't you ever speak to me again," said Miss Harris, with a stately air, +"because I won't answer you if you do." + +The mate displayed more of his schoolboy nature. "Wait till you're +spoken to," he said, rudely. "This is your gratefulness, I suppose?" + +"Gratefulness?" said Miss Harris, with her chin in the air. "What for?" + +"For bringing you for a trip," replied the mate, sternly. + +"You bringing me for a trip!" said Miss Harris, scornfully. "Captain +Gibbs is the master here, I suppose. He is giving me the trip. You're +only the mate." + +"Just so," said the mate, with a grin at his brother-in-law, which made +that worthy shift uneasily. "I wonder what Loo will say when she sees +you with a lady aboard?" + +"She came to please you," said Captain Gibbs, with haste. + +"Ho! she did, did she?" jeered the mate. "Prove it; only don't look to +me to back you, that's all." + +The other eyed him in consternation, and his manner changed. + +"Don't play the fool, Ted," he said, not unkindly; "you know what Loo +is." + +"Well, I'm reckoning on that," said the mate, deliberately. "I'm going +for'ard; don't let me interrupt you two. So long." + +He went slowly forward, and lighting his pipe, sprawled carelessly on the +deck, and renounced the entire sex forthwith. At teatime the skipper +attempted to reverse the procedure at the other meals; but as Miss Harris +steadfastly declined to sit at the same table as the mate, his good +intentions came to naught. + +He made an appeal to what he termed the mate's better nature, after Miss +Harris had retired to the seclusion of her bed-chamber, but in vain. + +"She's nothing to do with me," declared the mate, majestically. "I wash +my hands of her. She's a flirt. I'm like Louisa, I can't bear flirts." + +The skipper said no more, but his face was so worn that Miss Harris, when +she came on deck in the early morning and found the barge gliding gently +between the grassy banks of a river, attributed it to the difficulty of +navigating so large a craft on so small and winding a stream. + +"We shall be alongside in 'arf an hour," said the skipper, eyeing her. + +Miss Harris expressed her gratification. + +"P'raps you wouldn't mind going down the fo'c'sle and staying there till +we've made fast," said the other. "I'd take it as a favour. My owners +don't like me to carry passengers." + +Miss Harris, who understood perfectly, said, "Certainly," and with a cold +stare at the mate, who was at no pains to conceal his amusement, went +below at once, thoughtfully closing the scuttle after her. + +"There's no call to make mischief, Ted," said the skipper, somewhat +anxiously, as they swept round the last bend and came into view of +Coalsham. + +The mate said nothing, but stood by to take in sail as they ran swiftly +toward the little quay. The pace slackened, and the Arabella, as though +conscious of the contraband in her forecastle, crept slowly to where a +stout, middle-aged woman, who bore a strong likeness to the mate, stood +upon the quay. + +"There's poor Loo," said the mate, with a sigh. + +The skipper made no reply to this infernal insinuation. The barge ran +alongside the quay and made fast. + +"I thought you'd be up," said Mrs. Gibbs to her husband. "Now come along +to breakfast; Ted 'll follow on." + +Captain Gibbs, dived down below for his coat, and slipping ashore, +thankfully prepared to move off with his wife. + +"Come on as soon as you can, Ted," said the latter. "Why, what on earth +is he making that face for?" + +She turned in amazement as her brother, making a pretence of catching her +husband's eye, screwed his face up into a note of interrogation and gave +a slight jerk with his thumb. + +"Come along," said Captain Gibbs, taking her arm with much affection. + +"But what's Ted looking like that for?" demanded his wife, as she easily +intercepted another choice facial expression of the mate's. + +"Oh, it's his fun," replied her husband, walking on. + +"Fun?" repeated Mrs. Gibbs, sharply. "What's the matter, Ted." + +"Nothing," replied the mate. + +"Touch o' toothache," said the skipper. "Come along, Loo; I can just do +with one o' your breakfasts." + +Mrs. Gibbs suffered herself to be led on, and had got at least five yards +on the way home, when she turned and looked back. The mate had still got +the toothache, and was at that moment in all the agonies of a phenomenal +twinge. + +"There's something wrong here," said Mrs. Gibbs as she retraced her +steps. "Ted, what are you making that face for?" + +"It's my own face," said the mate, evasively. + +Mrs. Gibbs conceded the point, and added bitterly that it couldn't be +helped. All the same she wanted to know what he meant by it. + +"Ask John," said the vindictive mate. + +Mrs. Gibbs asked. Her husband said he didn't know, and added that Ted +had been like it before, but he had not told her for fear of frightening +her. Then he tried to induce her to go with him to the chemist's to get +something for it. + +Mrs. Gibbs shook her head firmly, and boarding the barge, took a seat on +the hatch and proceeded to catechise her brother as to his symptoms. He +denied that there was anything the matter with him, while his eyes openly +sought those of Captain Gibbs as though asking for instruction. + +"You come home, Ted," she said at length. + +"I can't," said the mate. "I can't leave the ship." + +"Why not?" demanded his sister. + +"Ask John," said the mate again. + +At this Mrs. Gibbs's temper, which had been rising, gave way altogether, +and she stamped fiercely upon the deck. A stamp of the foot has been for +all time a rough-and-ready means of signalling; the fore-scuttle was +drawn back, and the face of a young and pretty girl appeared framed in +the opening. The mate raised his eyebrows with a helpless gesture, and +as for the unfortunate skipper, any jury would have found him guilty +without leaving the box. The wife of his bosom, with a flaming visage, +turned and regarded him. + + +[Illustration: "YOU VILLAIN!" SHE, SAID, IN A CHOKING VOICE] + + +"You villain!" she said, in a choking voice. + +Captain Gibbs caught his breath and looked appealingly at the mate. + +"It's a little surprise for you, my dear," he faltered, "it's Ted's young +lady." + +"Nothing of the kind," said the mate, sharply. + +"It's not? How dare you say such a thing?" demanded Miss Harris, +stepping on to the deck. + +"Well, you brought her aboard, Ted, you know you did," pleaded the +unhappy skipper. + +The mate did not deny it, but his face was so full of grief and surprise +that the other's heart sank within him. + +"All right," said the mate at last; "have it your own way." + +"Hold your tongue, Ted," shouted Mrs. Gibbs; "you're trying to shield +him." + +"I tell you Ted brought her aboard, and they had a lover's quarrel," said +her unhappy spouse. "It's nothing to do with me at all." + +"And that's why you told me Ted had got the toothache, and tried to get +me off to the chemist's, I s'pose," retorted his wife, with virulence. +"Do you think I'm a fool? How dare you ask a young woman on this barge? +How dare you?" + +"I didn't ask her," said her husband. + +"I s'pose she came without being asked," sneered his wife, turning her +regards to the passenger; "she looks the sort that might. You brazen- +faced girl!" + +"Here, go easy, Loo," interrupted the mate, flushing as he saw the girl's +pale face. + +"Mind your own business," said his sister, violently. + +"It is my business," said the repentant mate. "I brought her aboard, and +then we quarrelled." + +"I've no doubt," said his sister, bitterly; "it's very pretty, but it +won't do." + +"I swear it's the truth," said the mate. + +"Why did John keep it so quiet and hide her for, then?" demanded his +sister. + +"I came down for the trip," said Miss Harris; "that is all about it. +There is nothing to make a fuss about. How much is it, Captain Gibbs?" + +She produced a little purse from her pocket, but before the embarrassed +skipper could reply, his infuriated wife struck it out of her hand. The +mate sprang instinctively forward, but too late, and the purse fell with +a splash into the water. The girl gave a faint cry and clasped her +hands. + +"How am I to get back?" she gasped. + +"I'll see to that, Lucy," said the mate. "I'm very sorry--I've been a +brute." + +"You?" said the indignant girl. "I would sooner drown myself than be +beholden to you." + +"I'm very sorry," repeated the mate, humbly. + +"There's enough of this play-acting," interposed Mrs. Gibbs. "Get off +this barge." + +"You stay where you are," said the mate, authoritatively. + +"Send that girl off this barge," screamed Mrs. Gibbs to her husband. + +Captain Gibbs smiled in a silly fashion and scratched his head. "Where +is she to go?" he asked feebly. + +"Wh'at does it matter to you where she goes?" cried his wife, fiercely. +"Send her off." + +The girl eyed her haughtily, and repulsing the mate as he strove to +detain her, stepped to the side. Then she paused as he suddenly threw +off his coat, and sitting down on the hatch, hastily removed his boots. +The skipper, divining his intentions, seized him by the arm. + +"Don't be a fool, Ted," he gasped; "you'll get under the barge." + +The mate shook him off, and went in with a splash which half drowned his +adviser. Miss Harris, clasping her hands, ran to the side and gazed +fearfully at the spot where he had disappeared, while his sister in a +terrible voice seized the opportunity to point out to her husband the +probably fatal results of his ill-doing. There was an anxious interval, +and then the mate's head appeared above the water, and after a breathing- +space disappeared again. The skipper, watching uneasily, stood by with a +lifebelt. + +"Come out, Ted," screamed his sister as he came up for breath again. + +The mate disappeared once more, but coming up for the third time, hung on +to the side of the barge to recover a bit. A clothed man in the water +savours of disaster and looks alarming. Miss Harris began to cry. + +"You'll be drowned," she whimpered. + +"Come out," said Mrs. Gibbs, in a raspy voice. She knelt on the deck and +twined her fingers in his hair. The mate addressed her in terms rendered +brotherly by pain. + +"Never mind about the purse," sobbed Miss Harris; "it doesn't matter." + +"Will you make it up if I come out, then," demanded the diver. + +"No; I'll never speak to you again as long as I live," said the girl, +passionately. + +The mate disappeared again. This time he was out of sight longer than +usual, and when he came up merely tossed his arms weakly and went down +again. There was a scream from the women, and a mighty splash as the +skipper went overboard with a life-belt. The mate's head, black and +shining, showed for a moment; the skipper grabbed him by the hair and +towed him to the barge's side, and in the midst of a considerable hubbub +both men were drawn from the water. + +The skipper shook himself like a dog, but the mate lay on the deck inert +in a puddle of water. Mrs. Gibbs frantically slapped his hands; and Miss +Harris, bending over him, rendered first aid by kissing him wildly. + +Captain Gibbs pushed her away. "He won't come round while you're +a-kissing of him," he cried, roughly. + +To his indignant surprise the drowned man opened one eye and winked +acquiescence. The skipper dropped his arms by his side and stared at him +stupidly. + +"I saw his eyelid twitch," cried Mrs. Gibbs, joyfully. + +"He's all right," said her indignant husband; "'e ain't born to be +drowned, 'e ain't. I've spoilt a good suit of clothes for nothing." + +To his wife's amazement, he actually walked away from the insensible man, +and with a boathook reached for his hat, which was floating by. Mrs. +Gibbs, still gazing in blank astonishment, caught a seraphic smile on the +face of her brother as Miss Harris continued her ministrations, and in a +pardonable fit of temper the overwrought woman gave him a box on the ear, +which brought him round at once. + +"Where am I?" he inquired, artlessly. + +Mrs. Gibbs told him. She also told him her opinion of him, and without +plagiarizing her husband's words, came to the same conclusion as to his +ultimate fate. + +"You come along home with me," she said, turning in a friendly fashion to +the bewildered girl. "They deserve what they've got--both of 'em. I +only hope that they'll both get such awful colds that they won't find +their voices for a twelvemonth." + +She took the girl by the arm and helped her ashore. They turned their +heads once in the direction of the barge, and saw the justly incensed +skipper keeping the mate's explanations and apologies at bay with a boat- +hook. Then they went in to breakfast. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lady of the Barge, by W.W. Jacobs + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LADY OF THE BARGE *** + +***** This file should be named 12121.txt or 12121.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/1/2/12121/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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