Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


Not in a day can the tyro learn to employ the snarling immediacy of
mastery of Mr. Pike, nor the reposeful, voiceless mastery of a
Captain West. Truly, the situation was embarrassing. I was not
trained in the handling of men, and Tom Spink knew it in his chuckle-
headed way. Also, in his chuckle-headed way, he was dispirited by
the loss of the mate. Fearing the mate, nevertheless he had depended
on the mate to fetch him through with a whole skin, or at least
alive. On me he has no dependence. What chance had the gentleman
passenger and the captain's daughter against the gang for'ard? So he
must have reasoned, and, so reasoning, become despairing and
desperate.

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