Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


"That will do--stop where you are," Mr. Pike commanded, when the crew
was scattered abreast, to starboard and to port, of Number Three
hatch.


It was a striking scene. MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS! That phrase,
learned in boyhood from my Marryatt and Cooper, recrudesced in my
brain. This was it--mutiny on the high seas in the year nineteen
thirteen--and I was part of it, a perishing blond whose lot was cast
with the perishing but lordly blonds, and I had already killed a man.

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