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Page 80
"Well, there is a jolly row on board now, anyhow," added Wilton, as he
prepared to descend over the cat-harpings.
"Hold on; don't let's go on deck yet," interposed Shuffles. "I want to
know what our fellows are going to do."
"They will call us down, if we stop here."
"When they do, we will go down, then," replied Shuffles, as he seated
himself in the top, with his legs through the lubber's-hole. "What are
our fellows going to do? Do they mean to stand this thing?"
"They can't help themselves; they are mad enough to do anything; but
what's the use?" added Wilton, as he seated himself by the side of his
companion.
"Don't you think they will join the League now?"
"They would join anything that would give them their rights. I'll join
now; but I don't want to be toggled in such a way as you said last
night."
"Then you can't be toggled at all."
"I haven't any idea of falling overboard accidentally. I'd rather lose
my money than do that."
"It's nothing but a form, Wilton. Between you and me, it's only a
bugbear, intended to work upon the nerves and the imagination. Of course
we shouldn't help any fellow overboard; no one would dare to do any such
thing."
"I don't like the sound of the thing."
"If you really mean to expose the secrets which are intrusted to you, I
advise you not to join."
"I don't mean any such thing," added Wilton, indignantly.
"If you didn't, you wouldn't be afraid of the penalty."
"Toggle me, then; and see what I mean."
"I don't want you to go in if you don't believe in it."
"But I do believe in it; so go ahead."
Shuffles pronounced the ridiculous obligation again, and Wilton repeated
it after him.
"Now you are toggled," said the leader.
"What are we going to do?"
"Bring in the rest of our fellows; that is the first job. In my opinion
we can get over fifty of them now."
"I don't know about that," answered Wilton, doubtfully.
"I'm very sure we can. If we get enough to take the ship, we can have
all the rest as soon as we have done the job."
"Take the ship!" exclaimed Wilton, appalled at the idea.
"That's what we mean."
"I don't believe you can do it," replied the doubtful "link in the
Chain."
"It's the easiest thing in the world. The affair will come off at supper
time, when the professors are all in their cabin. All we have to do is
to clap the hatch on the after companion-way, and secure the doors
leading from the main cabin into the steerage. Then we have them, and
they can't help themselves."
"But the boatswain, carpenter, and sailmaker will be loose."
"No, they won't. At the right time, we will pass the word for them, and
say that Lowington wants to see them in the main cabin. As soon as they
go below we will put the hatch on."
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