Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-01-28
remained ashora though tie relnain.

ing had embraced the laying out Of the
boat crew which was sent after him.
This passing recollection caused him
to skim over lightly the possibilities
that might arise when Schall found
him among the crew.
But Calvin bad served too long. He
either obeyed mechanically or acted in
tuitively, as the occasion demanded.
He never anticipated, and fear was un-
speakably foreign.
That afternoon he drew his pay from
kept by Spanish AMI.
1t isn't far from the back door to the
heap of rocks next to the sea, and the
splash of a falling body is ~unnotice-
able. AMI attends strictly to his bust
ness, and his memory is unframed.
Calvin was comparatively safe there,
for AMI was selfish, knowing that
what was Galvin's would eventually
be his without resorting to anything
that would involve division with 9TH
ers.
Calvin sat at a small table close to
the wall. Various other members of
the Dora Thorne's cosmopolitan crew
were with him.
After a time there was a scraping
of the sand at the stone doorway and
an extra movement among the shutting
crew. He looked up languidly at the
doorway.
A squarely built, tall, big framed,
red faced mar stood there. Calvin
pushed back from the table and rose,
for he recognized him.
The mar was Schall.
"Git aboard" he said to the sudden.
ly stilled lot, "and be quick about itr'
Calvin watched him until he caught
his eye. He saw him start as the fash
of recognition came.
Even the rum dulled brain of Calvin
partially sensed Schalrs hostility.
The mate moved nearer to him. Gal
vim waited, his finger ends slipping
back and forth across his wet palms.
his body taut.
$50, it's you again, is it," SchalI
growled, land you've signed, eh? Are
you goin' to stick this time or %squeal?"
he leered.
at depends" muttered the blond
giant, mentally fumbling for words.
ooh, it does, does it? l s'pose you'll
want your milk warmed and honey ON
your bread maybe-huh!' he sneered,
close to Galyin's face.
"We'll see-maybe," answered Gal
win, slowly realizing that the mate was
trying to show him up before the crew.
"Yes, we will see!" shouted Schall,
his tongue oddly slipping between his
puffy lips, then back through the space
Of missing teeth, 'and you'll find you
amt got old Hames to deal with this
trip; you're takin' your orders from
me, and l won't stand for any of your
sulkin' or splittin' the crew against the
company. l s'pose you've been tellin'
the lot already what you'd do to me,
eh? Well, why don't you start some
hin'?-you're off ship" he added, pgll-
ing back the chair that stood between
them.
Calvin stepped clear of him and
walked slowly into the center of the
room. He ran his thumb along inside
of his trousers top and was silent.
He knew he was being bullied by the
mate, and there were two courses left
open to him-the door or open resent
ment.
He realized, too, that the mate must
win here and now or no longer be
worth his papers.
Schall had crossed over and was
standing close beside him, but Calvin
remained motionless.
"Well, are you goin'," said Schall,
cor are you scared to ship with me?
Maybe you're afraid I'll show you up
you big murd"-
"Don't say that word" yelled Gal
vim, turning sharply, cor you and neil
settle here and now. / amt afraid OF
you or any man or thing that lives.
I'll go to the ship because I'm hired to
go. You can't drive me, you can't?
The scar on his cheek was purple,
and his body was hot with the lust to
kill.
Twice before had this thing pounded
within him and he had killed!
In the flash of hate that swept over
him he again felt the sickening crush
of bones in his great hands when he
had broken the giant black who had
slashed his cheek. and again he saw
the other CHASTITY, crumpled form
across the table in Sanchez, with its
staring eyes.
1t was this that kept his hands at
his sides and his feet fast to the stones
in the floor, for he wanted no more OF
it-blood enough for one, he thought,
and the name that goes with 1.-THE
name he broke on the mates lips-the
name he loathed.
81 won't take any chanel to have a
O raised over me-for you-you amt