Tell you what: I guess I'll take stock.' And he rose from table and disappeared with a lamp in the lazarette.
''Ere's another screw loose,' observed Huish.
'My man,' said Herrick, with a sudden gleam of animosity, 'it is still your watch on deck, and surely your wheel also ?' 'You come the 'eavy swell, don't you, ducky ?' said Huish.
'Stand away from that binnacle.

Surely your w'eel, my man.

Yah.' He lit a cigar ostentatiously, and strolled into the waist with his hands in his pockets.
In a surprisingly short time, the captain reappeared; he did not look at Herrick, but called Huish back and sat down.
'Well,' he began, 'I've taken stock--roughly.' He paused as if for somebody to help him out; and none doing so, both gazing on him instead with manifest anxiety, he yet more heavily resumed.

'Well, it won't fight.

We can't do it; that's the bed rock.