'I guess I'll berth on deck.

I don't know as I'm afraid, but I've no immediate use for confluent smallpox.' 'I don't know that I'm afraid either,' said Herrick.

'But the thought of these two men sticks in my throat; that captain and mate dying here, one opposite to the other.

It's grim.

I wonder what they said last ?' 'Wiseman and Wishart ?' said the captain.