The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant

by George Cupples

  CHAPTER XXXII

  "Well, ma'am, the rest you may easily fancy. We made Madras Roads, andthere I expected to lose sight of the Judge and his daughter again, aswe did of most of the other passengers; but to my perfect delight SirCharles preferred carrying out the voyage on to Calcutta in theschooner, where they had the after-cabins to themselves. The Indiaman'screw I kept, prisoners and all, till we should meet the frigate off theSunderbunds.

  "Just conceive standing up the hot Bay of Bengal with flaggingsouth-westerly breezes, shifting at times to a brisk south-easter, or asquall, as we've done ourselves this week. The moon wasn't at the fullthen, of course, so we only had it like a reaper's sickle in thedog-watches; but it was fine weather, and you may imagine one sometimescontrived, betwixt Westwood and myself, to have Violet on thequarter-deck of an evening without the Judge. Tom would step forwardsuddenly to see a small pull taken on a sheet, and Snelling knew prettywell not to walk aft of the capstan; so I could lean over the taffrailnear her, and look at the schooner's wake glimmering and sparkling up inthe bubbles astern.

  "Then, to save trouble, you need but picture to yourselves some suchsort of a daybreak as we had this morning; a cool blue cloudless sky allaloft, dappled to eastward with a mighty arch, as it were, of smallwhite spots and flakes, as a perfect sea of light flows up into itbefore the sun under the horizon, and a pale slanting shaft of it seemsto hang grey in the yellow above him.[30]

  [30] The zodiacal light, seen at sunrise and sunset.

  "The sea heaves deep-blue and deeper blue under the schooner; the wideflock of small clouds burn from gold to fire; the slanting streak oflight fades and vanishes, and the sun comes up like a gush offlame--sending a stream of glittering radiance along the water to ourstarboard bow, while it shows a long flat line of land far on the otherbeam. The planter is smoking his first cheroot for the day at the sterngratings, when we make out three or four faint points over the streak ofland shining like gold in the dawn; while at the same time three hazypillars, as it were, are seen standing up betwixt sea and sky, beyondthe rippling blue in the north-eastern board. 'Tis the spires ofJuggernaut pagoda on one side; and as the brisk morning breeze drivesthe water into short surges, till the schooner rises the ship upon theother, all of a sudden she looms square and white upon our starboardbow. As the hull lifted higher and higher under her canvas, there wasless doubt every few minutes of her being a frigate; and by the timeViolet and her father were standing together on the quarter-deck, theglorious old _Hebe_ was signalling us from her fore-royal-mast-head, asshe kept close on a wind to cross our course.

  "We spoke the pilot-brig that evening, took out the pilot, and stood upinto the mouth of the Hooghly with the night-tide in themoonlight--dropping the _Hebe_ at Diamond Harbour next day; while LordFrederick, and a Government gentleman he had with him from St Helena,went up to Calcutta with us in the schooner. The whole of the Indiaman'slate crew and officers were left in the frigate till further notice,notwithstanding which we were pretty well crowded on our way up;Westwood and I were glad of a couple of hammocks in the half-deck; and,in fact, I saw little more of Violet Hyde till they went ashore oppositeFort William.

  "In half-an-hour we were lying at anchor in the midst of the crowd ofIndiamen, country ships, Arab craft, and all sorts of craft besides,stretching far up to the next reach; the long front of flat-toppedbuildings, with their green venetians and balustrades, shining whiteover the row of trees on the right bank, like a string of palacesspreading back through the huge mass of the city to the pale, hoteastern sky--a tall cocoa-nut tree or a sharp spire breaking it here andthere; while the pile of Government House was to be seen dotted withadjutant-birds; and the opposite shore showed far off in a line of greenjungle, faced by a few gay-looking spots of bungalows. All the rest ofthe day Jones busied himself seeing all made regular and ship-shapebelow and aloft, till I began to think he had taken a fancy to theschooner, and meant to go with her and the frigate to the China seas.Next morning, however, as soon as breakfast was over in the cabin, hecame to me and said that, as there was nothing more to be done atpresent aboard, according to our agreement he would bid us good-bye.Nothing I could say was of the least use, so at last I had to give itup. Having little money about me, however, except in bills, andintending to go ashore myself, I told him I should pay him his mate'swages at once at a banker's in the town. By the time I came on deck,Jones had hailed a dingey, and the native boatman paddled us to theghaut below the Sailors' Home together.

  "I had shaken hands with him, and stood watching him from the bankverandah, as his manly figure, in the blue jacket, white duck trousers,and straw hat, passed away down Flag Street, stepping like a seamanfresh from blue water through a stream of Hindoos in white muslin,Mussulman servants, tall-capped Armenians, Danes, Frenchmen, Chinamen,Arabs, and Parsees. Three or four Coolies with painted umbrellas wereshouting and scrambling in his way, mentioning their names, salaaming,and s'ahbing him to the nines; a couple of naked black boys were tryingto brush his shoes in the dust; a tray of native sweetmeats seemed to beshoved every now and then under his nose; and two or three childrenwith heads as big as pumpkins were stuck before him, their mothersbegging for 'Buckshish! buckshish!' Jones held on like a man accustomedto every sort of foreign scenes in the world; and, out of curiosity tosee where he would go, I followed him for a little towards the thick ofthe noise and crowd, through Tank Square, where the water-carriers weresprinkling the ground from the sheep-skins on their backs as theywalked, serpent-charmers and jugglers exhibiting, and a dirty Fakirrolling at the corner in seeming agony, with a crowd of liberty-men inSunday toggery all round him.

  "Jones looked up at the church steeping in the white heat, and acrossthe glare of light to the city beyond, standing like a man that didn'tknow what to do, or hadn't seen Calcutta before; then passed carelesslyby the half-slued sailors, who hailed him as if he were a ship. Atlength he got to the turn of a street running into the native town,where you caught a glimpse of it swarming this way and that with turbansin the close overhanging bazaars. Some Hindoo procession or other wascoming along with tom-toms, gongs, tambourines, and punkahs, sweeping onthrough a babel of heathenish cries and songs; a knot of dancing-girls,with red flowers in their sleek black hair, could be seen in a hackerydrawn by two hump-backed bullocks; and a white Brahmin bull was pokingits head amongst the heaps of fruit at a stall; whilst you heard a wholeship's crew hurrahing and laughing amongst the confusion, as they drovealong. Suddenly, I saw Jones hail a palanquin near him, and get in. Thefour mud-coloured bearers took the pole of it on their shoulders, foreand aft--greasy-looking fellows, with ochre-marks on their noses andforeheads, a tuft of hair tied back on their heads like women, and asnaked as they were born, save the cloth round their middle--and nextmoment away they trotted, grunting and swinging the palanquin, till Ilost sight of them in the hubbub. 'Twas the last I saw of Jones."

  * * * * *

  Here the captain stopped; the _Gloucester's_ crew were getting theanchors off her forecastle to her bows for next day, when the light-shipoff the Sandheads was expected to be seen; and, from his manner and hissilence together, he evidently considered the yarn at an end. "That'sall then?" carelessly asked the surgeon, who was a chess-player, andhad heard only this part of the Captain's adventures, and the first two,so that he appeared to perceive a slight want of connection. "All?" wasthe unanimous voice of the lady passengers, most of whom had beenfaithful listeners--the younger ones were obviously disappointed atsomething.

  "Why, yes," said Captain Collins, with a look which might be interpretedeither as modest or "close"--"the fact is, I fancied the affair mightserve to while away a single evening or so, and here have I been yarningdifferent nights all this time! 'Tis owing to my want of practice, nodoubt, ma'am." "Come, come," said the matron of the party, "you mustreally give us some idea of a _denouement_. These girls of mine won't besatisfied without it, Captain Collins; they will think it no story atall, otherwise!"

  "An e
nd to it, you mean?" answered he. "Why, ma'am, if there were an_end_ to it, it couldn't be a 'short' yarn at all--that would be tofinish and 'whip' it, as we say, before it's long enough for thepurpose: whereas, luckily, my life hasn't got to a close yet."

  "Oh!" said the lady, "no sea casuistry for _us_; besides, _I_ am awareof the sequel, you know!" "Why, ma'am," answered the Captain, looking upinnocently, "it wasn't for two years and a half afterwards that I--Isettled, you know! Do you mean me to tell you all that happened in thattime, about the Frenchman, and what befell the schooner in the Chinaseas? 'twould last the voyage home; but if you'll go _back_ with me,I've no particular objection, now I've got into the way."

  "No, no, my dear Captain," said the lady, "we have had enough for thepresent of your nautical details--I beg pardon--but tell us how yousucceeded in----"

  "Well," interrupted the narrator, rather hastily, "'twas somewhat thus:I was at home at Croydon, being by that time first lieutenant of the_Hebe_; but she was just paid off. One morning, at breakfast, theletter-bag from the village was brought in as usual, my mother takingthem out, reading off all the addresses through her spectacles, whileJane made the coffee. My mother handed Jane a ship-letter, which she putsomewhere in her dress, with a blush, so that I knew in a moment it mustbe from Tom Westwood, who was in the Company's civil service in India,up-country. 'None for me, mother?' asked I eagerly; for the fact was, Ihad got one or two at different times, at Canton and the Cape of GoodHope, during the two years. 'Yes, Ned,' said my mother, eyeing it againand again, anxiously enough, as I thought; 'there is--but I fear it issome horrid thing from those Admirals'--the Admiralty, she meant--'andthey will be sending you off immediately--or a war, or something. Ohdear me, Ned,' exclaimed the good woman, quite distressed, 'won't you doas I wish you, and stay altogether!' By the Lord Harry! when I openedit, 'twas a letter from Lord Frederick Bury, who had succeeded to hiseldest brother's title while we were out, saying he had the promise of acommandership for me, as soon as a new brig for the West-India stationwas ready. 'I shan't have to go for six or seven months at any rate,mother,' said I, 'by which time I shall be confounded tired of the land,_I_ know!' She wanted me to buy a small estate near Croydon, shoot,fish, and dig, I suppose; while Jane said I ought to marry, especiallyas she had a girl with money in her eye for me. Still, they saw it wasno use, and began to give it up.

  "Why I never heard at all from a certain quarter, I couldn't think. Tillthat time, in fact, I had been as sure of her proving true as I was ofbreezes blowing; but now I couldn't help fancying all sorts of tyrannyon the Judge's part and her mother's, not to speak of Tom's uncle, theCouncillor. I went down the lane for the twentieth time, past the end ofthe house they had lived in, where the windows had been shuttered up andthe gates close ever since I came. All of a sudden, this time, I sawthere were workmen about the place, the windows open, and two servantswashing down the yellow wheels of a travelling-carriage. I made straightback for our house, went up to Jane, who was at her piano in thedrawing-room, and asked, quite out of breath, _who_ was come to thehouse over the park behind us. 'Did you not know that old Nabob wascoming back from India?' said Jane. 'His face was getting too yellow, Isuppose; and, besides, his wife is dead--from his crossness, no doubt.But the young lady is an heiress, Ned, and as I meant to tell you, fromgood authority'--here the sly creature looked away into hermusic--'passionately fond of the sea, which means, you know, of navalofficers.' 'The devil she is, Jane!' I broke out; 'what did Westwoodmean by that?--but _when_ are they coming, for Heaven's sake?' 'Why,'said Jane, 'I believe, from what I heard our gardener say, they arrivedlast night.' 'Then, by Jove, my dear girl!' said I, 'I'll tell you asecret--and mind, I count on you!'

  "My little sister was all alive in a moment, ran to the door and shutit, then settled herself on the sofa to hear what I had to say, aseagerly as you please. So I told her what the whole matter was, with thestate of things when we left Calcutta. Jane seemed to reckon the affairas clear as a die; and you've no notion what a lot of new ropes she putme up to in a concern of the kind, as well as ways to carry it outship-shape to the end, in spite of the Judge--or else to smooth himover.

  "The long and short of it was, I didn't leave till about seven monthsafter, when the _Ferret_ was put in commission; but by that time it wasall smooth sailing before me. The Judge had got wonderfully softened;and you may be sure, I continued to see Violet Hyde pretty often beforeI went to sea. You'd scarce believe it, but, after that twelve months'cruise, I actually didn't leave the land for two years, which I didowing to the chance I had of seeing sharp service in the Burmese war, upthe rivers, while General Campbell had tough work with them inland. Sothat's all I can say, ma'am!"

  * * * * *

  "Very good, sir!" was the surgeon's cool remark. "And, in fact, sir, Ifancy if every one of us were to commence telling his whole life over,with everything that happened to him and his friends, he must stop shortsomewhere--however long it might be!" The Captain smiled; they sat onthe poop talking for awhile, sometimes saying nothing, but watching thelast night at sea.

  The pilot-brig is spoken to windward next morning, even while thedeep-sea lead-line is being hove to sound the bottom. Falling suddenfrom the foreyard, the weight takes the long line from hand after handback to the gangway, till it trembles against the ground. 'Tis drawn upslowly, the wet coil secured, and the bottom of the lead showing itslittle hollow filled with signs of earth--"Grey sand and shells!" Theystand on till the pilot is on board, the low land lifts and lengthensbefore the ship; but the flow of the tide has yet to come, and takethem safely up amongst the winding shoals into the Indian river's mouth.A new land, and the thoughts of strange new life, the gorgeous sightsand fantastic realities of the mighty country of the Mogul and Rajahs,crowd before them after the wide solitary sea. The story is already allbut forgotten.--AND THE ANCHOR IS LET GO!

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