1 Supper was at hand and the table not laid.
2 The conversation at the table was of other things.
3 But her coming to the table had something amusing in it.
4 The hunters left the table and went on deck, and still we talked.
5 "Get the cards, Hump," Wolf Larsen ordered, as they took seats at the table.
6 But the gates of speech were closed, and we, too, rose from the table and laughed awkwardly.
7 Finally, he commanded me to resume my seat at the cabin table for a time and let the cook do my work.
8 It was no easy task, waiting on the cabin table, where sat Wolf Larsen, Johansen, and the six hunters.
9 But as I descended the companion stairs to clear the table I heard him shriek as the first bucket of water struck him.
10 A moment later, as I started down the companion stairs to lay the table for dinner, I heard him loudly cursing some men amidships.
11 Suddenly I became aware of him, leaning back from the table and listening curiously to our alien speech of a world he did not know.
12 For the most part, the remaining four hunters leaned on the table or lay in their bunks and left the discussion to the two antagonists.
13 At half-past five, under his directions, I set the table in the cabin, with rough-weather trays in place, and then carried the tea and cooked food down from the galley.
14 At half after five I went below to set the cabin table, but I hardly knew what I did, for my eyes and my brain were filled with the vision of a man, white-faced and trembling, comically like a bug, clinging to the thrashing gaff.
15 Three days of rest, three blessed days of rest, are what I had with Wolf Larsen, eating at the cabin table and doing nothing but discuss life, literature, and the universe, the while Thomas Mugridge fumed and raged and did my work as well as his own.
16 I have seen him a score of times, at table, insulting this hunter or that, with cool and level eyes and, withal, a certain air of interest, pondering their actions or replies or petty rages with a curiosity almost laughable to me who stood onlooker and who understood.
17 My function is to amuse, and so long as I amuse all goes well; but let him become bored, or let him have one of his black moods come upon him, and at once I am relegated from cabin table to galley, while, at the same time, I am fortunate to escape with my life and a whole body.
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