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] (with an effort). What is the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?

. The matter with him is he is dead—stabbed.

. Bill Jukes dead!

. The cabin is as black as a pit, but there is something terrible in there: the thing you heard a-crowing.

(slowly). Cecco, go back and fetch me out that doodle-doo.

(unstrung). No, Captain, no. (He supplicates on his knees, but his master advances on him implacably.)

(in his most syrupy voice). Did you say you would go, Cecco?

( goes. All listen. There is one screech, one crow.)

(as if he were a bell tolling). Three!

. ’Sdeath and oddsfish, who is to bring me out that doodle-doo?

(No one steps forward.)

(injudiciously). Wait till Cecco comes out.