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Page 112
"Well, was it any stranger that the officers of the first part of the
port watch voted, than it was that those of the second part did so?"
inquired Shuffles, with earnestness.
"I think it was," replied Pelham, decidedly.
"Paul Kendall was one of them," said McKeon.
"Paul Kendall! Does any fellow suppose he has joined the Chain?"
demanded the defeated candidate.
"Why not?"
"And Captain Gordon?"
"Why not?"
"How did the captain vote?" asked Pelham.
"No matter how he voted," said Shuffles, indignantly "I protest against
this raking up of matters which are already settled."
"He voted beans," replied McKeon, who, it is hardly necessary to add,
was a Pelham man.
"Then he is one of your friends, Shuffles," continued Pelham, who was
beginning to understand how his rival had been elected.
"I don't claim him."
"Did you take the captain into the Chain, Shuffles?"
"I won't answer," replied the captain elect.
"If Captain Gordon and Paul Kendall are members, I would like to know
it. I am first officer of the ship under the new order of things, and if
I command Gordon to do anything, I mean that he shall obey me."
"Of course you will give him no orders till we are in possession of the
ship," added Shuffles, not a little alarmed.
"Well, as Gordon and Kendall are members of the Chain--of course they
are, or they wouldn't have voted--we can talk over the matter freely
with them," said Pelham, chuckling.
"If you make the signs, and they make them, of course you can," replied
Shuffles. "No member can speak to another about the business of the
Chain until both of them have proved that they belong, by giving the
required signals."
"Shuffles, do you suppose Captain Gordon knows the signs?"
"How should I know? I never tried him. I don't know why he shouldn't
make them as well as Tom Ellis."
"Tom Ellis is all right. I vouch for him, for I admitted him myself. Who
will vouch for the captain? Who took him in?"
"I don't know."
"I don't; but if anybody has admitted him, and not given him the signs,
he ought to be instructed in them. Of course he must have been admitted,
or he would not have voted," added Pelham, sarcastically.
"I have nothing more to say about this matter," replied Shuffles,
disgusted with the cavils of his first officer.
"Nor I; but I shall satisfy myself whether the captain is a member or
not," said Pelham, decidedly.
"Well, you must be very cautious what you do."
"Certainly I shall. I will give him the first sign; if he don't answer
it, I shall conclude he is not a member; or, if he is, that he has not
been properly instructed."
"Better not say anything to him," said Shuffles.
"Why not? He voted, and it must be all right."
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