"He's up town," returned the other.

"Up town!" sneered Pinkerton. "Now, I'll tell you what you are: you're a

Fraud; and if I wasn't afraid of dirtying my boot, I would kick you and

your dinner into that dock."

"I'll tell you something, too," retorted the captain, duskily flushing.

"I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your

knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now."

"I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal

with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang," said Jim.

"I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your

traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll

have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to

work for him."

"I'll go when I please, and that's to-morrow morning," cried the captain

after us, as we departed for the shore.

"There's something gone wrong with the world to-day; it must have come

bottom up!" wailed Pinkerton. "Bellairs, and then the hotel clerk,

and now This Fraud! And what am I to do for a captain, Loudon, with

Longhurst gone home an hour ago, and the boys all scattered?"

"I know," said I. "Jump in!" And then to the driver: "Do you know Black

Tom's?"

Thither then we rattled; passed through the bar, and found (as I had

hoped) Johnson in the enjoyment of club life. The table had been

thrust upon one side; a South Sea merchant was discoursing music from a

mouth-organ in one corner; and in the middle of the floor Johnson and

a fellow-seaman, their arms clasped about each other's bodies, somewhat

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