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He never took up so much room when he was alive.

Would have been more fitting if we'd buried him at sea.

And easier.

Hey, Cavitano, it's a funny thing, eh?

We sit here and we talk about how he's hot.

Just yesterday, Mac here.

He say to me, Mario, it's too much heat in the engine room.

Yeah, I say.

You and me, we select speed on a hot rock.

He no listen.

He fall on his face.

He's a dad.

I trust, sir, when making arrangements for the funeral, that you took into account

the fact that Mr. Macpherson was a Presbyterian.

He was a darn good engineer.

I worked for him almost six years.

And then he have to go over on his face just like that.

He teach me everything I know.

I had an uncle who teach a dog to jump through hoops.

I saw him.

Who's the dog?

Oh, Mario, I'm just kidding.

I love you.

Yes, Mario, we all love you.

You all love me.

I love you too.

See?

Hello.

It all seems to be an order, sir, except for this,

which has to be taken to the consulate for signature.

Right.

And... Vamos.

Take it easy, Mac.

I'll go with him and get everything straightened out.

Vamos.

Hey, get a load of that.

Ha ha ha ha!

No, sir.

It's not going to be easy.

Like we were saying, it's not going to be easy to find someone like Mac.

You're old Mac.

I was his right hand.

It's very difficult to find a good engineer.

Especially in a dump like this, eh?

No, sir.

It's not going to be easy.

But you know where I could find one, eh, Cristiano?

Aye, Capitano.

I know a man.

He knows that the edge will come like nobody else.

He's only left every little piece.

He's a watch of the boiler like a baby.

He's only man from the job.

You, Cristiano?

Aye, Capitano.

You smile.

You guess.

I wouldn't hire you, you multisape, if I could

do the job with two seals and a corkscrew.

Aye, Capitano!

Why for you, kid Mario?

Well, Captain, I'd better settle the business.

There's just a little matter of the stamp.

Not a hell with a stamp, Judy.

What about my replacement?

I'm pulling out of here tonight.

The late Mr. McPherson.

Well, let me tell you, Captain, you'll no find it easy in San Luis.

Come to think of it, you'll no find it easy anywhere in South America.

There's but two men here that I know of that

know one end of a spanner from the other.

But if you'd like to take an old man's advice, which is offered to you,

three, you'll promote one of the lads you have aboard.

Inefficient as he may temporarily be, and seeing that you're sailing for

Bristol, with a wee bit of forethought, no doubt you could

have an honest Scotsman waiting for you there when you arrive.

And now, Captain, there's the stamp, a matter of five pesos.

You might spend it getting that fixed.

Oh, that?

After 24 years to tell the truth, I hardly ever hear it.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Il Capitano, he say to me...

Mario!

Just like that!

Mario, he say, for such a valuable service you do on these ship's engines,

I'm going to make you the first engineer.

Yeah.

I can just hear him.

Six years I work upon him on that ship.

We was in a storm off Hatteras, and caught in a typhoon in the Indian Ocean.

All the time, we work like a team, and they say nothing.

He takes

a big man like you, Mario, he say.

He takes a...

Hey, what's the matter?

All you think about is women!

Hey, Mario!

Oh, chaser, the silly chicken.

Tommy and me, we've got more important things to do.

No chance?

And don't forget, you'll be on board by midnight.

Okay, Mario.

Well, is there a way to go, eh?

No!

Come on!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

You know Tommy is a funny thing.

You get the chance like this, and it makes you think.

Who is the Mario?

He ain't got no family.

He ain't got no education.

He ain't never done nothing.

My kid, the lot.

Sometimes I think God make me with his left hand.

But these are not true.

Everybody get this chance.

And now I get the mind.

And I tell you something.

Il Capitano is not going to be sorry he trusts Mario.

So what do we do, you and me?

Celebrate?

Choose like I was going to say.

We're going to celebrate like nobody do it before.

Are you English?

Sure, sure.

English.

And of the English boat?

Sure.

Then I would like to talk to you for a moment.

That will be a pleasure.

She means me.

Come on, I'll buy you a drink.

Oh, no, Mario.

I see you later, Tommy.

See you later.

Oh, Mario.

I heard you talk in English.

I'm English too.

You?

English?

Well, half, anyway.

Listen, I have a small proposition to put to you.

Okay.

What's the proposition?

It's almost 350 pesos, and it's yours.

What did I get to do?

I want to get to England.

So you want to get to England, eh?

With this?

You can do nothing with this.

Listen, I simply have to go.

This morning I went to the Consul.

I told him if I don't get to England, I... What for?

You want to go to England?

You're from upriver, aren't you?

I've been from office to office, tried to get a job on a ship.

They only laugh.

Senor, listen.

Sometimes I look at the arbor, and I think I've got my mind.

I have a little money, but it gets less and less.

I don't even dare eat.

Yesterday I thought, wait and see.

You're going to die right here in St. Louis.

So what do you want me to do about it?

I want you to take me aboard.

Okay, I take you aboard.

But first we go to your room and talk about it.

Go to my room.

Then I'll be whistle for the wind.

Hey, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, I was only kidding.

Hey, here's your money.

You think I want to steal it?

I think I get an idea.

We go out, we have a little supper, and we talk about it, eh?

Supper?

Sure, anything you want.

We can go out this way.

And we find a way to get you on a ship.

We do it, okay?

It was a good dinner, eh?

Make you fat like a pitcher.

You never think you get Italian wine in St. Louis?

A good Balconicella.

It's almost alive, eh?

It talked to you.

It said to me, Mario, you are out with the prettiest little woman in St. Louis.

It said to me, Mario... If you really made your chief engineer, you could do it.

Well, like I tell you, it's got problems.

First, it's no passengers.

Second, it's no women in group.

Manuela, it's a pretty name.

You said first, second, what's the third?

Well, I got to think about it.

You gave me too much to drink.

First time I see you, I go crazy.

Don't touch me.

I never see anyone like you in my life.

I hate people touching me.

I give you pretty things.

I give you presents.

Anything you want.

You ask for it.

You see this ring?

I give you this ring.

I told you, I hate to be touched.

I do anything.

Anything.

Then take me apart.

All right.

I'll get you a board.

First, you take me apart.

After?

First, you take me aboard.

First.

Six years I worked for him.

And this Captain Proteiro is a great man.

And when Mario say that, he's something.

And him and me, he's just like a dad.

What about the others?

Oh, don't worry.

Everything's going to be all right.

Nobody see nothing.

You say nothing.

Leave everything to Mario.

Capitano's going to be drinking gin.

It's going to be easy.

See you in this trip down tomorrow.

Yes, do you know what I'm saying?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Los cruzeros, cochinos, marranos.

Italiano, tenor, queser, cochinos.

Nice of you to join us, Mr. Costanza.

Castoff, you eat on my cap!

May I inquire, Mr. Costanza, who your friend is?

He's a new galiboy, Mr. Evans.

I talk to him, Capitano.

He's so fixed up.

You don't say nothing, see?

I fix everything.

Hey, Capitano.

Where in hell have you been until 14 minutes to 12?

He's a little boy, I tell you about this.

Ten more minutes and I'd have left you on the beach.

Oh, Capitano, sure you don't do that to Mario.

He's a boy to work in the galley with the cook.

What boy?

He's a good boy, but he's a very sad.

Mama's a dead, Papa's a dead.

He's a well-brought up.

He's so clean like you never see him.

Get down below and make ready to shove out of here.

He's a working half a dozen ships.

Get down below.

Always in the galley.

It's all right, brand new.

It's the name, Manuel.

Get that pigeon-toed native out of my sight.

Sure, sure, Capitano.

This is just for you and you never be sorry.

Never in your life.

You see?

What's easy?

He's so fixed up.

Ah, phong.

Come in, Capitano.

Bring me some coffee.

Yes, Capitano.

And a sweater.

Light the way, Capitano.

Gracias.

Muy gracias.

He's a pilot.

Is it going to be all right?

I go below to engine room.

You stay here.

When we drop by, I come back.

Is it work like a dream, eh?

Ah, so it's you again, Pereira.

Ah, commentante.

It's a beautiful evening, huh?

Stand by, folks, or parte.

You look more prosperous than ever.

I'll bank up.

I've straightened out all your charts, sir.

Except that I can't find the lights to punt him in Guino.

I'd like to hear what you say to that aunt of yours when you get him out to a voyage.

It is your aunt you live with, Mr. Evans, isn't it?

Yes, sir.

The old man drinks too much, doesn't he?

Never wears his coat like a decent.

A decent Christian, eh?

I never said that, sir.

All right.

I'll take over.

Hey, boy, what are you doing there?

Get back up, followed way along.

Get on in the world.

That's all the poor, fool things are.

But he never will.

You know who does?

A man who can buy himself a part of some stinking scowl.

A man who would hire some poor devil like me to run her.

I'll sit back in his office and watch the dollars roll in.

They can't lose.

After a while, the bottom will fall out of her, but that's all right.

If I get her home, they'd buy me a bottle of whiskey.

If I don't, the insurance will pay for the lot.

You are sad tonight, Señor Comendante, eh?

No, I'm not sad for you.

Oh, excuse, Señor.

I forget.

Forget?

Forget what?

Oh, you English?

You get embarrassed if anybody asks you what is in your heart.

No, better than you did.

You want to know the truth?

It's just that suddenly it's night I saw myself growing old.

And I didn't like it.

When you're young, you see the good day is all ahead of you.

And suddenly you get older and catch sight of them behind

you and wonder how the devil's name they got there.

It's a discovery everybody makes Señor.

Shall I tell you something, Pereira?

If I thought it would make the slightest

difference, I'd fling the whole life up tomorrow.

Ships, cargoes, crews, companies, everything.

And live on a rock in Galway.

Well, we want what God will not give us, eh?

Me, I am the opposite.

I have a wife and six, seven babies.

And every night I take out the foreign commendantes.

Vera Cruz, Montevideo, New York, Panama.

And sometimes I think to myself, Jose, maybe just

this once you forget those babies and go along.

Go along where?

Who knows?

Señor, Banca de Gamboa.

Well, it's always the same commendante, eh?

Happy journey, pleasant trip, happy days.

Pereira!

Si commendante?

Don't try it.

Ah?

Oh!

Si, si.

What did you ship aboard, Missy?

Did you come from these parts?

You was in front of that cafe with me and the chief.

If the captain sees you here, he'll cut your heart out.

I know.

You're a relative of Mario's.

His niece, maybe.

Or Mother's daughter.

He's a parrot, that Parson Evans.

Parson?

You know what he says to me?

Marcy says, are you a practicing Christian?

Am I a practicing Christian?

Holy mackerel!

So I says, practice and know.

What's it to you?

So he says, as an honest man, then, there's not

a bottle of Gilby's gin you have in your pocket.

Honest man, I says, Gilby's gin it is.

So he says, it grieves me to hear you say that.

For you know as well as I, that spirituous liquors is not allowed on board.

Gentlemen, may I present a friend of Mario's.

A very special friend.

What do you mean, Mario's?

She's in here, ain't she?

Yeah, I think she's going to stay here.

So where else could he keep her and not get caught?

Why's your name, kid?

Hey!

Gotcha, that woman and I put you in the furnace, and nobody ever finds your bones.

Who are you trying to kid Mario?

Look, she don't have hands like your boy.

She doesn't even look like your boy.

You don't stand a chance.

You can't keep her hidden away for 23 days, Mario.

We'll just wait till the bridge sees her.

I fix her the bridge.

Nobody on bridge is going to see her.

All right, so have it your own way.

If nobody talk, nobody going to see her.

But if anybody can say one word, I'll write his back.

All right, all right.

Come with me.

They're hurting but pigs, those guys.

Why for you leave my car?

Where I put you?

You can't blame a guy for trying.

Look, Mario, I... You don't know me.

I am not how I look.

Everything is going to be all right.

It's so much your bridge.

So I go first.

You stay here.

You wait two, three minutes.

Then you come along.

As if you go to galley.

Okay?

What's the matter?

I said what's the matter?

You don't want him to break you neck.

You better do like he said.

Go on, kid, you heard me.

You like the man say it.

Fetch cost and...

Watch out.

Mario, I... I wait, I wait.

I think you never come.

You're afraid.

Everything's going to be all right.

Mario, I don't know how to say but... You think I'm rough.

Open the message.

Everybody's afraid of me too.

And it's a funny thing.

Because I'm a really not alike of that.

When we make part, if you want, we even get married.

And I tell you something.

He said 35 years.

And I never say that to a woman before in my life.

Let me go.

Ever since I first met you, I think of you and think about you.

Then I'm almost crazy.

Why are you talking to me?

I can't tell you anything.

Why you turn your head?

Why you don't understand, Mario?

All of my life I do dirty things.

And now for first time with you, is everything honest?

Mario, I can't help it.

Do you want me to be sick?

You don't play games with Mario.

Not rather gentle.

Try it.

I'll call the others.

Just you try.

Get this slut out of my way.

You stinking ox!

So you're a chief, are you?

You're a ship's officer, are you?

You're a stench, Costanza!

Don't stand there, you idiots!

Pick him up!

Bless!

I'm going to fix you so you'll remember it the rest of your days.

Bless!

And that slut of yours with you.

Sir, get back up there and all the costs four points to port.

Aye aye sir.

Lock him up for it.

Shut him in the paint locker.

And if there isn't room, make room.

After that, bring me the key.

I'm putting this pig ashore in Fernando.

And that's a godforsaken hole.

Forty acres of rocks.

Where you can build yourselves a shack if you can find a tree to build it out of.

Evans, we're putting them ashore tomorrow night.

And they can rot for all I care.

You can't put me ashore with him.

I can't, can't I?

I should have drawn myself.

Go on, drown!

Evans, stop him alone!

Stop vengeance!

She's over the side.

Stop vengeance!

The woman's job!

Hard to port!

Hard to port!

Vote state guards!

Vote state guards!

What's going on?

What should I know?

Come on, you had it.

Come on.

Aye aye aye sir.

What's your call, sir, sir?

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Aye aye sir.

Look.

I'm going to break your back.

Look at me, look!

Aye aye sir, mike!

They got us, huh?

Hard to port.

Hard to port, sir.

Why did you do it, Evans?

Why should a girl like that jump?

Maybe you misjudged her, sir.

Mid chips.

Do

not grow mushrooms in your own cellar.

Up to 25 pounds a week.

And what's more, that's profit.

Hard to be sure if you can sell them.

And if you don't, you'll always have enough mushrooms to start an umbrella factory.

Hey, cookie, you eat mushrooms in China.

Oh, sure.

Mushroom and lice, mushroom and florn, mushroom and meat.

We eat plenty of mushrooms.

And what, may I ask, is the population of China 600 million?

600 million people got to eat three meals a day, seven days a week.

At world market!

And you ask me, how am I going to make 25 pounds a week?

Yeah, yeah, but this is where you get the stuff from.

Does it say, does it say, of course it says, look!

Everybody wants to know how you are.

You know that damn bloody boy, they say.

He cannot be a damn bloody woman.

There you are.

A nicely laundered, all your babies.

Now you eat everything, you hear?

Everything.

Make you strong enough to swim all the way home.

Fine.

You got yourself into it.

What did you do with him?

You almost killed him, didn't you?

What's your name?

I wish you had.

You see, even when I met him... I said, what's your name?

Manuela, Manuela Hunt.

Hunt?

Where'd you get a name like that?

My father was an English man.

Your father was a what?

An English man from Windsor, where they have a park and a castle.

I see.

A castle.

So that gives you the right to come and muck up a whole ship's

company and put us 90 miles off course to get rid of you.

You're not really putting me ashore in Fernando.

Of course I'm putting you ashore.

Both of you.

But you can't.

Oh.

Why in the devil's name can't I?

Put me ashore with him?

Can't you imagine what it would be like?

If that's how you feel, why did you get mixed up with him?

To get to England.

Why have you got to get to England?

How can I explain like this?

Why don't I get some clothes on?

You've got a hell of a lot to explain.

So you don't like the notion of being put ashore with Costanza?

But you didn't mind, did you, when you shacked up with him in St. Louis?

I never... We never did.

So he took you aboard out of the goodness of his heart.

You never touch it.

That's right.

Wipe your greasy fingers all over your clothes.

How old are you?

Seventeen.

A fine figure you'd cut in England.

Did you ever have a pair of shoes on your feet?

Of course.

Yes, I can just sit.

You know what you'd look like in London?

You're wrong.

You think I'm only some savage from upriver.

But I'm not.

I can soar, read and write, and do sums.

My father taught me all those things because he was a gentleman.

And anyway, I'm not going to London.

I'm going to Windsor.

So that's it.

Some Englishman stuffs your head full of sentimental nonsense.

And the result is I lose a chief engineer and 50 tons of coal.

No, no, no.

He was going to take me there himself.

But instead he skipped out on you.

Oh, no.

Then what made that splendid English father

of yours dump you on the street in St. Louis?

He didn't dump me on the street.

He went off to Matagorsa because he was looking for silver.

He was sure there was plenty of silver there.

He never came back.

I see.

No, you don't see it all.

After that, Senor Corcorado took very good care of me.

Corcorado?

Who the devil was that?

He was a business partner of my father's.

He wasn't English, of course.

He was Brazilian.

He was my husband.

Your what?

My husband.

I see.

And how long were you married to this business partner?

Only two months.

Then he died.

And I had to stay with his brother.

That was the worst time of all.

He rented rooms to sail or send you.

Used to go around all very long giving orders.

Me especially used to follow me even into the town.

Almost killed him the night we left St. Louis.

Then I was driving with a moorah to tour.

All right, all right.

How old did you say you were?

Seventeen.

Seventeen.

How is the woman's heart?

Perfectly all right.

Probably got more lives than a cat.

What's your course, Mr. Evans?

042, sir.

We should be off for Nando well before dark.

Alter course to 050.

050, sir.

I've watched them.

You heard the order.

050.

050, sir.

Is she awake, sir?

When do we reach Fernando?

Apparently we're not putting into Fernando.

All right, Cristán, sir.

Get up out of there and get back to work.

You still got that woman up there?

You heard what I said, Cristán, sir.

Get back to the engine room.

Sure, sure, Capitano.

On ship, you're Capitano.

And I do like you say.

But when we get on shore, it's different, eh?

Sure, sure, Capitano.

On ship, you're Capitano.

And I do like you say.

If she has to stretch her legs, see to it, she's escorted by one of the officers.

Oh, no, sir.

Well, if it's two, what do you say about these immersions?

Why more people grow?

Why?

Why, Esti?

So why don't more people got Rolls-Royce cars, Cadillacs?

Because they don't got the brains.

You don't believe me?

So go and ask the captain.

He'll tell you...

Hey, you think he'd give you an honest answer?

If everybody wants to know what is in this book.

If every one of us was on shore, like he should be, earning 25 pounds a week.

So where do you think he'd get a crew?

Answer me that!

And how old were you with all this happiness?

I was 11 that summer.

There were half a dozen Indian girls, all about my age.

They were my cousins or something.

And we played and we swam in the cobrados.

Naked as he is.

All of us.

It sounds wonderful.

But I still don't see why you want to get to England so badly.

How can you explain these things?

Mostly because of my father, I suppose.

Because of all the things he told me about England.

He was going to buy me a beautiful white dress and take me to my festival.

And I dance and dance with a prince.

Or maybe even a duke.

And be a real lady.

Oh, I know I'm half Indian.

But I'm half English too.

And nobody, nobody can take my English half away.

I think I understand, miss.

There's nothing to make an English garment.

This time we are just before the frost of the godly ship.

We'll be looking fast.

Beans as long as that on the ground.

Never seen a sprout, miss.

My pleasure.

Out yours, Lord.

Oh, surely not.

And these, lettuces, tomatoes.

You have tomatoes at home, miss?

Oh, yes.

Now, my heart will relinquish your reign.

When we get to Bristol, I'll take you around and I'll show you myself.

I've been very kind, Mr. Blalock.

Not at all, miss.

It's been a pleasure.

Good night, Mr. Blalock.

Good night, miss.

Good night, Captain Protero.

Good night.

Hello, miss.

Mr. Langley.

How in the devil's name did I take you for a boy?

You never looked.

I sure did.

I was standing by the bunk.

When I was asleep?

Yes, when you were asleep.

I looked at you.

And I almost reached down and touched your shoulder to wake you up.

To tell me you had been wrong?

Oh.

You can get some foolish notions into your head at three o'clock in the morning.

I was thinking, 22 years at sea and what does it get a man?

You start off big, then you go home, voyage after voyage, Bangkok to Tenerife,

and there's the rest of the world.

People get a little older, a little more tied

up in each other, knowing about their business.

And none of it has anything to do with you.

You even forget how to talk.

And there are good many things you want to say.

I stood there looking at you, and I might have said, I might have said a good many

flattering things about what I saw.

I might have said, here am I, James Prothero, a 43-year-old

hulk swimming in alcohol, and I've been through it all.

Are you listening?

Yes.

But now I'm through with the sea, I've said, and I'd like to go ashore with

someone like you to find.

..

God knows what, I'm a seaman.

I don't know anything else.

Might have been just like the others and probably lasted only a week.

But the point was, I imagined...

What are you shivering for, are you cold?

No.

I've been trying to stop, but it comes from inside me.

If I had said it, what would you have said?

Gone deaf, Evans.

I said good morning.

Good morning, sir.

Oh, sir?

Yes, Blella.

I've just been down in the engine room because Stanza

doesn't seem too happy about the heat down there.

I must say it does seem a bit hot, so now he's opening all the ventilators.

Right, I'll see you to it later.

All right, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

Could I have a word with you for a moment?

What is it?

I wish to...

apologize for my rudeness just now.

That's all right, Evans.

No need to say another word.

And I realize I'm not always easy to get on with, but

you don't make it any easier when you dig at me, sir.

I suppose we just weren't born to get on with each other.

That's all, Evans.

You see, sir, I love my ship and my job and... So do I, Evans.

To the exclusion of everything else, sir.

If you know what you love, Evans, you're a very lucky man.

In England, girls of your age are still tied to their mother's skirts.

Oh, we must be a lot quicker than in Saluhis.

I've known girls married when they were so young...

The truth is, I'm a very practical woman.

And if... if you think...

that is, if you think you've taken advantage, it's simply not true.

What's that?

I said it's simply not true.

Are you going to spend all day in there?

Why not?

It's lovely.

Tell me about him.

Who?

Your husband with that silly name.

There's nothing to tell.

Nothing to tell.

You married him, didn't you?

You lived with him.

What did he look like?

He was a little man and fat.

And the others.

What about the others?

The others?

In San Luis.

When you were in San Luis, what did you live on?

That was easy.

I had hundreds of lovers.

Don't you believe me?

Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

Well, does the old man look different in daylight?

He looks beautiful.

Let me look at you.

But you have looked.

I haven't looked enough.

Who is it?

It's Bliss, sir.

What do you want?

It's about the trouble in the engine room, sir.

Will you stop it?

Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

All right, Bliss.

I'll be up.

Shut up.

Tell him to come in.

Why don't you?

Tell him I love you.

I love you a lot.

It's Costanza, sir.

He reports an abnormal temperature down there.

Careful, Costanza.

They'll go to the devil.

Did you hear what they said?

If you don't look out, you little tippy, you'll

be worried about how his ship will hear you.

He must be kept dry.

The mushrooms are purple, gay, dead by darkness and damp.

Hey.

Why can't we go home in the folk shop?

Hey, what's the matter up there?

You crazy or something?

I call and I call on the tube.

What's the matter now?

I find out why it's hot.

It's a resort bunker app.

All the place is hot there.

I think I open it up and use up the coal.

But it's beginning to smoke like hell.

Have you got a close down again?

Sure.

It's a tight like a drum, but I tell you, plenty smoke come out.

Wait here a minute.

All right, Costanza.

We're going to have a look at it.

Yeah, mister.

Bless up here.

How will you open?

Aye, aye, sir.

How much coal have you still got down there?

150, 160 ton.

I don't know.

Any idea how long it's been there?

It's now September.

We take on third for July.

You know, it's a funny thing.

You can't recall six, ten months or nothing happened.

Therefore, no reason to catch a fire.

Hey, Mario, look at this.

It's getting worse.

I tell you, she's a good fire.

Of course, some of these fires can go on for days before burning themselves out.

Sure, sure.

But you know what's in back of that bunker?

One tiny little wooden bulkhead and 200 tons of cotton.

We'll pattern everything down and then see if we can choke her off.

Cotton will burn without air, mister.

Thank you.

Bridge.

Mr. Blitz.

Aye, sir.

Turn out too many.

Get the active ventilator shut down.

Right.

Aye, aye, sir.

Get someone to close down the after vents.

Right, Mr. Blitz.

I was in a fire in the Indian Ocean once.

What do you do, spittin' it?

You see, we're caught here.

Well, I can stand there.

There's only one thing for it.

We'll get some steam into that hole and see what happens.

You hear what they say?

You want the whole steam.

Now you're gonna find out what it is to be roast alive.

Captain Pothril.

Yes, what do you want?

I simply must speak with you for a minute, sir.

If you please, sir.

Yes, Evans, what is it?

You may remember that Costanza reported an abnormal temperature in the engine room,

sir.

I went down to investigate and found a good deal of smoke in

the reserve bunker between engine room and number three hold.

Since there's only a wooden bulkhead between that bunker and the cotton in

number three... Very well, Evans.

Have all ventilator shut down.

Have that done, sir.

Secure all bulkhead doors.

That's been done, too.

Good.

Start pouring steam into number three.

That is already in hand, sir.

Then what do you propose we do now, Mr. Evans?

Well, sir, I... I think that...

in your position, I should want to take a tour down below and see for myself.

And precisely with what object you appear to have done all that can be done?

Well, it occurred to me, sir, that if the

temperature in number three gets any higher...

we ought to open her up and get some water in there.

And if you pour in water, Mr. Evans, you also pour in air.

Cotton will burn without air.

I am perfectly well aware of that.

I should say that in the circumstances, there's nothing else that you can do.

Yes, sir.

What's temperature number three?

225.

How long has it been 225, Evans?

15 to 20 minutes.

Then if it goes down, you will have acted properly.

And if it goes up, we shall have to consider the next step.

Yes, sir.

Oh, and Evans...

If it goes up, don't wait 15 or 20 minutes to call me.

When did I fall in love with you?

No, why did you fall in love with me?

I don't know.

I suppose...

I suppose it's because I want to live with you in Windsor Castle.

And ride with you in the Lord Mayor's coach.

Yes, and take you to see Dick Whittington's cat.

First, I'd have to put shoes on your feet and get your hair combed.

Because I'm the master of a filthy hulk and I don't like it.

I want to take you down Regent Street.

Which is paved with gold.

Because when you look tired, you're more beautiful than when you're not.

Because I want to live with you in any place

that infantile head of yours can imagine.

Any place.

I'll live with you.

I'll live with you.

I'll live with you.

Will you leave me when I get old and fat?

To be women by the time they're 25 are generally old and fat and dead.

I wonder if it is possible for people like us to love each other so much and

to...

Like us?

I like to pretend, but I'm not real English.

I never could be.

What are you trying to tell me?

That you're going to start filing a teeth like a savage?

No, but I might act like a savage.

You never know.

What would you do if I ran away?

We are very different, aren't we?

We have to pull up.

We've kept it set.

No doubt about it, she's broken apart into the hole.

I can't understand where she's getting the air.

Have you got pressure up on the hoses?

Yes, sir.

All right, have them stand by for orders.

Hey, Capitano, we won't be able to work below much longer.

With the air cut off, we get 150, 160 degrees at the edge of the room.

I'm fully aware of that.

First, give me our position.

Right, sir.

We can do one of two things.

We can keep pouring in steam and make a run for Pernambuco.

Or we can open a hatch and see what the hoses will do.

If we get any air in there, she'll go up like a match.

And if we don't get any water in there, Mr. Evans,

she'll part her seams and go down like a lead sinker.

As far as I can make out, number four holds still clear.

All right, Belloc, signal Pernambuco.

Tell them what the trouble is.

Say we're changing course and we ought to be in there about 5 o'clock tomorrow night.

Aye, aye, sir.

What about my boys at the Ensign Room, Capitano?

I'll tell you what we'll do, Capitano.

We'll give it another quarter hour.

Your boys can take another quarter hour, can't they?

If the temperature doesn't drop in number

three, I'll open the hatch and let in the hoses.

Okay, Capitano, I tell them.

What's the new course, Blis?

Yes, I can make out, sir, about 270.

420.

420, sir.

What's the reading, Evans?

450 in number three, sir.

Steady on 270.

Steady on 270, sir.

Let me know your amended course.

Aye, aye, sir.

Steering on 270, sir.

Very well, then.

We'll give it a quarter hour.

What's the matter?

You don't like the key?

It's about down here.

Let me show you.

Look, Matthew.

No, look, look, look, let me show you.

Like a deez.

Like a deez.

It's good for you.

It's good for a man.

It's making strong, like value.

Come on, boys.

It's only 15 minutes more.

And it is going to give her water.

Okay, Joe, put some water here.

Come on.

Aha!

I like it that.

That's a good one.

That's a fire.

That's a fool with the light of that.

Signal away, sir.

Drive.

Evans, what's the reading?

455.

If we don't get that hatch cover off, it'll blow off.

Bousin, start your horses!

Aye, aye, sir.

Well, look, get your boat swung out.

Aye, aye, sir.

Aye, aye, sir.

Come on, get a move on.

Get it up.

Go to the tube, sir.

It's now 185 in the engine room.

All right, well, look.

Pull them out of there.

Very good, sir.

We're going to abandon ship, Mr. Evans.

Get your signal out.

I won't.

It's all right.

We'll get off.

I want it.

I don't want to go anywhere.

I don't want to go to England.

It will be all finished between us.

It's true, isn't it?

Isn't it?

It happens like that.

Come on.

Wait, where do you want to go?

She may part her scenes at any moment.

Lock the door and stay here.

You're out of your mind.

Yes, I told you I am a savage.

What do you want to do?

If for 50 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, when

will we ever have it better in these three days?

You're mad.

No, no!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean it.

Now what?

Get the car into the boat.

That's the first one.

All correct?

No, Mr. Plet Erik of Scanso.

Is the antonellae missing?

Nothing.

Is it your turn?

Are the mistakes clear?

Crap!

Hold it, people!

Crap!

Hold it, like they can do!

I imagine Mr. Bliss will try to make contact with us at first light.

Mr. Bliss is perfectly capable of handling the situation.

Say what you like, Mr. Prothero.

Some of us have a sense of duty, and some have not.

How are you going to explain to the owners about that woman?

Answer me that.

Oh, Evans.

And then when the trouble started, you mean to

tell me you shouldn't have been in the engine room?

Well?

Oh, yes.

But the woman was with you, wasn't she, Captain?

Stow it, Evans.

Isa no use to worry, Capitano.

Sometimes you got the sheep, people get killed, and then you know got the sheep.

Well, what do you want?

It's like a duck with sheep.

But if you don't get killed like us, and you stick

together, everything's going to be all right.

The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restore... You hear, Capitano?

He say, shut up!

For four days now, we get nothing from you, except till Capitano's no good.

I'm a no good.

Nobody's no good, except Mr. Stinking Evans.

He's a finish now.

You hear?

Go ahead, right.

Right all you want.

It make no difference, no how.

You may defend him only wish, Costanza.

But when I get this into Bristol, he will never get another ship as long as he lives.

I pity you, Evans.

Yeah, me too.

What do you mean he died?

Just like I say, he was a very sick in the night.

Capitano, he sure was a sick man.

You know, it's a funny thing if you look at it.

Like Mr. Evans was saying, if it hadn't been for that woman, maybe he'd not die.

What do you mean by that?

Well, look at what happened.

I lose my job.

You lose your ship.

Mr. Blello he died.

Mr. Evans, he died too.

All because of a woman.

No more women for you and for me, Capitano.

Shut up.

Shut up.

What would you have done if you'd married her?

A 17-year-old girl.

Of course, sure, maybe.

Get the job.

Job.

You'd spend all your life at sea.

What could you do, sure?

She sure make a big monkey out of me.

And if you stayed sea, you'd be someplace or another six months at a time.

The only wife for a seaman is a bridge rail.

These nice little toopy girls.

In two, three years, they get fat like a house.

Yeah.

All of these dating women.

We home.

Nice.

They drive you almost crazy.

And when you go back, they got to somebody else.

They got hundreds of men.

Yes, Mario, I know.

Simple, Luis.

Simple.

Is there any news yet?

No, no, no, no.

No.

Have you heard any more news about the other boat?

Are they all safe?

I tell you yesterday when I get my instructions.

I tell you this morning when I send off Mr. Bliss and his men.

They go.

You wait.

It's all down here on the paper.

But I still don't see why... I tell you the capitanos boat was picked up at Suriname.

I tell you I got instructions to send Mr. Bliss

and six men off on the track this morning.

What do you want me to do?

The company pays me for sending seven men.

I have money for seven men.

I send seven men.

You see them go with your own eyes.

Then why can't I telephone Suriname?

I know if the capitan is there.

If the capitano wants to get in touch with you, he will get in touch with you.

Look, why... Look, I'm tired.

I'm hot.

I want to sit down and have a glass of beer.

But if I telephone to Suriname... Suriname is a town.

A big town.

It is not like the jungle in Suriname.

There are forty-four hotels.

Shipping offices.

Customs.

Immigration offices.

Officers!

Who are you going to telephone?

There.

Esta me matora.

Do they know I'm here?

Do they know about you?

Yes.

Look, it says here on the paper... Seven men.

One Bliss.

Two Moss.

Three Jones.

Four Ferrari.

Five Cassini.

Six Johnson.

Seven Athol.

So far as the Suriname steam pocket navigation company is concerned.

You don't exist.

There.

Read it for yourself.

Come on, come on, read it.

You were never born.

I have my instructions.

You have to wait for the authorities to make up their minds what to do with you.

What do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do with you?

I want you to take care of yourself.

I want you to take care of yourself on the same basis as I do with you.

What do you want me to do with you?

What do you want me to do with you?

There will be a message.

You wait and see.

Look, amigamiya, is nothing new.

You want me to be unhappy all right.

I'm unhappy for all you girls.

The trouble is you have too much imagination.

Big ideas.

Ships.

Be a lady.

Chico.

This or the two.

Life is not like a dream.

All unhappy.

Wake up.

It's finished.

Look, sit down here like a good girl.

And I'll buy you a drink.

All right?

Chico.

Take care of yourself.

I want to work with you.

I will come to the place where I want to work.

I can't wait for you to do that.

I want you to work with me.

You know, I'm not happy.

I will wait for you.

It says I'm to wait.

But that's my name.

It says I'm to wait.

But this is what I tell you all the time.

You are to wait until they can decide what to do with you.

You are crazy.

All of you.

He wants me to wait here.

It says so.

He and your aunt pay.

Your crazy.

Your crazy.

All of your shit.

He wants me to wait.

To wait.

To wait.

He says I have to wait.

Where is he?

I said, where is Capitan Protero?

Never mind about him now.

Come here.

He'll be here any minute.

Dos conyacs.

Si, se lior.

Mario, don't be angry.

These things simply happen.

I couldn't help it.

I'm sorry.

I'm not angry.

Listen, in St. Louis, we made a crazy bargain.

But since then, so much has happened.

I'm going to England.

I'm going to be with him always.

That's not what El Capitano tell me.

In the boat, he and I, we talk a long time.

Talk?

Drink that.

Maybe you're going to need it.

It was a sin.

First, he break his shoulder.

Then I think he get bone in long.

And after two, three days, he get a very bad fever.

Cause he's so much worse because he lose a ship already.

Lose a job.

Lose a reputation.

I don't care.

What is he?

Maybe not for El Capitano, he care.

Damn these women, he say.

Damn these women.

It's a lie.

Where is he?

I want to talk to him.

Go look into the hospital in Suriname.

I left him there three hours ago.

But didn't he tell you he was coming to meet me?

Then what did he say?

Mario, what did he say?

Eteraminate.

He was a dead.

What did he say?

I said... he was a dead.

It's all right, Maroia.

It's going to be all right in a minute.

You can't go on at all.

One thing he did.

He give me this.

He say to me, Mario, give it to Manuela.

He's enough money here to take her to England.

The rest of us is going to be shipped out tonight to Veracruz.

Veracruz is a company both going to pick us up.

Maybe when we get back to England.

Tell me the truth.

Didn't he have a single good word for me?

Remember in San Luis?

How we talk, we talk.

It was good days.

You know something?

Two things.

Bad things.

All of my life I got to push.

But when I meet you in San Luis, it was the best day I ever had.

But I was a good Mario.

And I tell you I want you to be my wife.

What are you going to do now?

Who cares?

Is it like that, Manuela?

Did you give her the money?

You should have told her yourself.

Maybe it's true you too old for her.

Maybe... maybe she find a better man like you say.

Maybe later she thank you like you say.

But you should have told her yourself.

Okay, so we never see her again.

Who cares?

20 years time it make a no different snow howl.

Shut up, Capitano.

With the people like you and me, it's a ships or it's a wife and babies.

And you sure know what you want, Capitano.

No more women for you and for me.

We stick with ships, you and me.

And we don't take a no chance with people on shore.

Of course we should.

Hey, Capitano!