"What!" and stopped dead. Suddenly he brought his fist through the air. "I'll"--and as suddenly stopped it midway. "No, I won't, either. But I'll put Maurice wise to them. What should he know at his age and with his up-bringing of what's in the heads of people like them. And if I don't have something further to say to old Mr. Duncan! But now let's go back to Arkell's--come on, Joe."
But I didn't go back with him. I didn't think that I could do Maurice any good then, and I might be in the way if Clancy wanted to speak his mind out to anybody. I went home instead, where I expected to have troubles of my own, for I knew that my mother wouldn't like the idea of my going seining.
VI
MAURICE BLAKE GETS A VESSEL
Three days after Johnnie Duncan fell out of Crow's Nest the new Duncan vessel des
