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"An' I was goin' to roll that guy!" he oin' to roll him, and now look here wot he has done to ht appeared above as the hatch was raised, and Billy saw the feet and legs of a largethe ladder from above When the newcomer reached the floor and turned to look about his eyes met Billy's, and Billy saw that it was his host of the previous evening
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"You pulled it off pretty slick," said Billy
"What do you mean?" asked the other with a frown
"Come off," said Billy; "you knohat I mean"
"Look here," replied the other coldly "Don't you forget that I'm mate of this ship, an' that you want to speak respectful to me if you ain't lookin' for trouble My name's MR Ward, an' when you speak to me say SIR Understand?"
Billy scratched his head, and blinked his eyes He never before had been spoken to in any such fashion--at least not since he had put on the avoirdupois of manhood His head ached horribly and he was sick to his stohtfully sick Histhan upon what the , so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dinity coed and pain-racked convolutions of his brain
The ht that his bluster had bluffed the new hand That hat he had coht him that an early lesson in discipline and subordination saved unpleasant encounters in the future He also had learned that there is no better time to put a bluff of this nature across than when the victi--e are then at their lowest ebb A bravewhen nausea sits astride his stomach
But theBilly's brain was befuddled, so that it took soe was all there, and all to the good Billy was a ht, his ht a flush of shame to the face of His Satanic Majesty He had hit oftener froe of size and weight and numbers that he could call to his assistance He was an insulter of girls and women He was a bar-room brawler, and a saloon-corner loafer He was all that was dirty, and mean, and contemptible, and cowardly in the eyes of a braveall this, Billy Byrne was no coward He hat he was because of training and environment He knew no other er ethics of his kind he would have lived up to them to the death He never had squealed on a pal, and he never had left a wounded friend to fall into the hands of the enemy--the police