pan was grating horribly on my nerves i not collect ray thoughts clutching the if for support � and i confess the with � it put my teeth on edge � i d a hot cooking range to the offending it and it securely into the coal box the cook grinned at my exhibition of nerves and into my band a steaming with an ere this ll fc good it was a mess � ship s coffee � ta the beat of it was between cf the � staff i glanced down at my raw and bleeding and turned to the the sea wolf thank you mr i said but don t you think your measures were rather heroic it was because he understood the reproof of my rather than of my words that he held up his palm for inspection it was remarkably i passed my hand over the and my teeth went on edge once more from the horrible sensation produced my name i not he said in very good though slow english with no more than a shade of accent to it there was mild protest in his pale blue and withal a timid frankness and that quite won me to him thank you mr johnson i corrected and reached out my hand for his he hesitated awkward and shifted his from one leg to the other then hand in a hearty shake j have you any dry clothes i may put on i asked the cook yes sir he answered with cheerful alacrity � il run down an a look over my if you ve no tions sir to my things he out of the door or glided rather a swiftness and of gait that struck me as being not so much cat like as in fact this or as i was later to learn was probably the expression of his personality and where am i i asked johnson whom i and rightly to be one of the sailors what vessel k this and where is she bound off the heading about sou west he the as though groping for best and rigidly observing the order of my ne the bound sail t aad who u the captain i must see him as soon as un looked puzzled and embarrassed he hesitated � be in his and framed a complete er the cap n � wolf or so men call him l� ner beard his other name but you better speak soft � ith him he is mad this morning the mate � bu be did not finish the cook had glided in better yer out of ere he said t k ou man n be yer on deck an this t � y fall foul of im turned to the door at the same over the cook s shoulder me with an solemn and wink as though to remark and the need for mc to be soft b captain over the cook s arm was a loose and d � my of evil looking and sour smelling garments � they was put aw y wet sir he vouchsafed but you ll ave to make them do til yours the fire to the staggering with the roll of the hip and aided by the cook i managed to slip on the instant my li w is and crawling from the harsh contact � � my involuntary and � t only yer don t ever ave to get used to such as ite in this life you ve got a soft skin that l the sea wolf you ave more like a s than any i know of i well sure you was a gentleman as soon as i ad eyes on yer i had taken a dislike to him at first and as be helped to dress me this dislike increased there was something repulsive about his touch i shrank from his hand my flesh and between this and the smells arising from various pots boiling and on the fire i was in haste to get out into the fresh air further there was the n ed of seeing the captain about what arrange ments could be made for getting me ashore a cheap cotton shirt with collar and a bosom with what i took to be ancient blood was put on me amid a running and fire of comment a pair of workman s my feet and for trousers i was furnished with a pair of pale blue one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other the leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the s soul and missed the shadow for the substance and whom have i to thank for this kindness i asked when i stood completely arrayed a tiny boy s cap on my head and for coat a dirty striped cotton jacket which ended at the small of my back and the sleeves of which reached just below my elbows the cook drew himself up in a humble fashion a on his face out of my experience with on the atlantic at the end of the voyage i could have sworn he was waiting for his tip from my fuller knowledge of the creature i now know that the posture was unconscious an hereditary no doubt was responsible sir he his features the sea wolf i greasy smile sir an at t thomas i said i shall not forget you � are dry bt his face and bis eyes as in the of his being his ancestors ed and stirred with dim memories of former lives sir be said very gratefully and very ed in tbe way that the door slid back he slid stepped out on deck i was still weak from d a puff of wind caught me and across the moving deck to a comer of the ch i clung for support tbe from the perpendicular was bowing and pacific roll 