Face to Face (The Secret Sharer) (Face to Face)

Oh

rusha blared anchor and the Gulf of Siam

at the starting point of a long journey

home that is still in an immense

stillness the shadows of her spars flung

far to eastward by the Setting Sun at

that moment I was alone on her deck

well here I am hitched aboard a ship I

don't know with a crew I don't know

you're my first command old girl and

you're good enough for me the question

is am I good enough for you

owner the C will answer better Robinson

mmm oh yes yes I'm coming and I think

you'd be a good idea if you had a coat

on tonight mr. Roxon seeing that the

skipper's first Mina board

how does he strike you you know what

it's easy to know what he'll be like

third tedious

he's got Conway stamped all over now

you're writing there's no difference

between one trailing ship man and

another went to see the first type of

brass buttons he did not like you and ie

mr. Dobbs he doesn't know what the stink

of a folks was like never took the

weevils out of a Seabiscuit now I don't

but drawer Jenny man discomfort I've

been at sea for thirty years for a

metric he's not much more than 30 years

old with a master's ticket

what Saddam please only copy me only

coffee sir

that's an ice cold air No thank you

Smithers I made my last meal ashore a

hearty one hey you hope you find your

captain comfortable sir very comfortable

by the word you know that the ship

anchored beyond the roadstead I saw her

mast heads above the nearest island

bless me sure sir uncooked EBIT over

there unless is too heavy laden to cross

the ban is waiting for the leech spring

tide and once sheltered anchorage that's

right she's a Sephora with a cargo cone

for Bangkok door 31 feet how do you know

her.

Edison the Coxon of the lowest of

brought you out sir I see black no sugar

low gentleman has a hot night and the

crew must have had plenty of hard work

getting cleared for sea so we're setting

our anchor watch and All Hands turn in

as soon as they care - I'll take the

deck myself

let my soul you sir yes mr. Robinson are.

Roger Roger - you can call mr. Brown at

4:00 of course at the sign of any wind

will have old hands up and get underway

immediately aye aye sir stifling isn't

it

Taking the anchor watching himself and

him a captain think of that no bless me

I could hardly believe my ears.

I wonder what sort of a seaman he is mr.

brown hey that's the question mr. Robert

you

what's not her crap I said that there's

no need to call anyone I wasn't going to

but are you alone on deck

yes what's the time the time about 1:30

I suppose your captain's asleep I'm sure

he isn't look my man could you call him

out quietly I'm the captain no my name

is Gregor you must be a good swimmer

I've been in the water since 9 o'clock

the question is whether I should let go

of this letter and go on Swimming's and

I think from exhaustion

oh come aboard yeah

come aboard by all means

well now what's all this an ugly

business I'm afraid as a ship oh Claire

yes I know the Sephora I'm the maid over

I should say no worse

why no longer because I killed him at

just now no weeks ago on the voyage here

39 South my father's a parson in Norfolk

can you see me before a judge and jury

charged with murdering a seaman was

seaman a snarling mangy cur wouldn't do

his own duty and wouldn't hurt him on

those two there's simmering every minute

with a silly sort of wickedness or a

trouble with him from the day we sailed

was the use of talking you Minister yes

and now and the weather too can't

imagine what it was like a sea gone mad

end of the world will be something like

that the man may have the heart to see

it coming and be done with it

not day after day for ten days without a

night's sleep or a warm meal or dice de

chine do you think I could have got the

men to do anything if I hadn't been

pretty fierce with him no I don't we're

trying to set a reef foursome only

ragweed left to keep the ship afloat

she was though heavy laden she'd have

died under bare poles in that mother

then with the ship running from life any

moment alas discuss the dock right

interfere with us of the sheets crazy

with fear and shouting obscenities

because he was afraid to sail with Lord

is a matter of seconds force one way or

another

we flattened upon deck no one else you

could have done nigger

don't know what I was I could have done

in your shoes did he get washed

overboard and drowned No

by the time with the sale said he got up

and came at me I took him by the throat

with both hands then I tagged antics he

made for the ship crew saw it and took

to the rigging but I kept on shaking him

and blind fury until it seemed as though

the sky form in my head

they say that for ten minutes the ship

was awash in the smother of foam it's a

miracle that they found us jammed

together behind the four bits there was

another miracle though they didn't Chuck

me overboard when I got the carcass of

their precious ship made out of my

fingers seems that I was still holding

him by the throat of the erector set

black on the face that was too much for

them they run after the skipper shouting

murder like a pack of lunatics GIMP two

on my back with the captain looking down

at me he's an old psalm singing what a

religious maniac almost mr. liquor he

said you have committed a brutal murder

you can no longer act as mate on my ship

I'm keeping you under lock and key in

this cabin until I can hand you over to

the British Consulate Bangkok my

father's a parson in Norfolk can you

imagine the family getting word of this

I just slipped down to my quarters

my second let's do on deck in a few

minutes honking Rastamouse

mr. Robertson.

Robles all right

not much sign of any wind yet no sir not

much so you have to look out for and

haul him that rope ladder should have

been done before the hands went ago

riser good night.

I heard someone moving and came here no

one were coming before daylight without

knocking and asking permission yep

you're done in come on sit down

that was a pretty story to hear.

McQueen's medal cadet what Matt Ivan you

are a car my bar yes that's you - it was

some years before my turn but tell me

how did you come to be came to our

psyche at her when we sighted land a

week ago I sent for the skipper to see

his face should have thought I was a

murdering brute who went around by night

strangling people do I look it if I do

he wouldn't have dared coming to the

cabin I asked him to leave the door

unlocked I wanted nothing more I had a

prize to swimming in my last year on the

Conway I don't believe that he wouldn't

do it you always seem sick when he came

to see me well if he couldn't look me in

the face because they knew I'd save the

ship I sat in that foursome the thing

must take its course he said I represent

the law here we wonder why I didn't

chuck him aside and make a boat for it

there and then there have been a rush to

stopping the noise I wouldn't broken out

to be flung back somebody else might

have been killed I'd had enough of that

it's messing me a little bit nervous a

doctor maybe admit doubting myself is my

first ship I know I feel well be sure of

itself until you've taken out of some

tight corner - what

she will be as soon as I make even

attempts yes that's the way with us

isn't it you get a ship and you get your