18/43 And the things they'll do to your toenails--it 'ud make your 'air creep on your 'ead to listen to the things I could tell you--" "Oh, it's awful!" said Jeremy. "And where is your ship now ?" "Ah, my ship!" the Captain replied, winking in the most mysterious fashion; "it would be telling to say where that is. I can trust you, I know; I'm a great judge o' character, I am, but not even with my own mother, gone to glory now twenty years and as holy a soul as ever breathed, I wouldn't trust even 'er with the secret." "Why is it a secret ?" asked Jeremy breathlessly. Between you and me there's enough gold on that there ship to satisfy the Prime Minister 'imself, to say nothing of the jewels--rubies, pearls, diamonds. |