hat it'll be a lesson to you in the future.

"I came to you, not very long ago, asking for your card to the Kady. I
told you my business was about the mate here, and you said you were Kady
yourself. Whether you are or not I don't know, and I don't vastly care,
but anyway, I paid for justice in hard money, and you said you'd give up
the mate. You didn't do that. You played a trick on me, which I'll own
up I was a fool to get caught by; and I make no doubt that you've been
laughing at me behind my back with that nasty nigger partner of yours.

"Well, prisoner at the bar, let alone I'm a blooming Englishman--and
Englishmen aren't sent into this world to be laughed at by any
foreigners--I'm myself as well, and let me tell you I don't stand either
being swindled out of justice when I've paid for it, or being played
tricks on afterward. So you are hereby sentenced to the fine of one bag
of pearls, to be paid on the spot, and furthermore to be incarcerated in
one of those smoke boxes down the alleyway yonder till you can find your
own way out. Now, prisoner, don't move during the next operation, or
I'll shoot you. Mr. Mate, you'll find a small bag inside the top part of
his nightgown, on the left-hand side. Got 'em?"

"Here they are, sir," said Murray.

"Thanks," said Kettle, and put the bag in his pocket. "And now, if you
please, Mr. Mate, we'll just put His Whiskers into that cellar with the
nigger, and leave him there to get smoked into a better and, we'll hope,
a more penitent frame of mind."

They completed this pious act to their entire satisfaction, and left
the house without further interruption. The townspeople were just
beginning to move about again after the violence of the midday heat, but
except for curious stares, they passed through the narrow streets
between the whitewashed houses quite without interruption. And in due
time they came to the beach, and hired a shore boat, which took them off
to the steamer.

But here Kettle was not inclined to linger unnecessarily. He saw Grain,
the second mate, and asked Mm how much more cargo there was to come off.

"The last lighter load is alongside this minute, sir."

"Then hustle it on deck as quick as you can, and then call the
carpenter, and go forward and heave up."

Grain looked meaningly at Murray. "Am I to take the fore deck, sir."

"Yes, I appoint you acting mate for three days; and Mr. Murray goes to
his room for that time for getting into trouble ashore.