How will that suit you ?" "It suits me very well, thank you, Mr.Bloxford," said Dene, and away went his hand to the talisman in his pocket.
"Then fix it so," said Mr.Bloxford.

"And mind and keep your eye on Jackman," he added, as he trotted off.
Derrick's new and exalted position relieved him of a great deal of the drudgery he had previously performed, but it kept him on the continual spring, and burdened him with fresh responsibilities; for it was necessary that he should be all over the ship at once, so to speak.

All the details of the daily life on board passed under his supervision; all the multitudinous cares, disputes, arrangements, were referred to him; and, strangely enough, though most of the men in the company must have envied him, their envy was not accompanied by ill-feeling, for Derrick's value was admitted by all of them.
One of the first things he did was to rearrange the women's and children's quarters, and render them more comfortable, for which the benefited ones blessed him and loved him all the more intensely.

Then he set to work to cleanse the ship, which during the spell of bad weather had become almost unendurable.

The crew, and some of the company, grumbled at the increased work and Derrick's drastic regulations, but they all enjoyed the results of his despotism.
Derrick had less time than before to spend in friendly interchanges with those who had become attached to him, and the two girls, Isabel and Alice, watched him wistfully as he moved rapidly within their sight, and hungered for a word, a smile; and presently they taught the children, when they were with them, to waylay him, and had to be content with the scraps of kindness which fell from the children's table.
Fortunately for Derrick's _regime_, the weather continued fine, and three weeks later the _Angelica_, much battered and straining still most piteously in every plate, was steaming up the La Plata river to Buenos Ayres.
The disembarkation shall not be described.