Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


Twice has Bert Rhine attempted a truce, but both times his white
flag, as soon as it showed above the edge of the 'midship-house, was
fired upon by Mr. Pike. The last occurrence was two days ago. It is
Mr. Pike's intention thoroughly to starve them into submission, but
now he is beginning to worry about their mysterious food supply.


Mr. Pike is not quite himself. He is obsessed, I know beyond any
doubt, with the idea of vengeance on the second mate. On divers
occasions, now, I have come unexpectedly upon him and found him
muttering to himself with grim set face, or clenching and unclenching
his big square fists and grinding his teeth. His conversation
continually runs upon the feasibility of our making a night attack
for'ard, and he is perpetually questioning Tom Spink and Louis on
their ideas of where the various men may be sleeping--the point of
which always is: WHERE IS THE SECOND MATE LIKELY TO BE SLEEPING?

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