But he went out of the room after Mark, and advised him to take their
passage in the Screw, though they lay upon the bare deck; which Mr
Tapley, who needed no entreaty on the subject readily promised to do.
When he and Martin met again, and were alone, he was in high spirits,
and evidently had something to communicate, in which he gloried very
much.
'I've done Mr Bevan, sir,' said Mark.
'Done Mr Bevan!' repeated Martin.
'The cook of the Screw went and got married yesterday, sir,' said Mr
Tapley.
Martin looked at him for farther explanation.
'And when I got on board, and the word was passed that it was me,' said
Mark, 'the mate he comes and asks me whether I'd engage to take this
said cook's place upon the passage home. "For you're used to it," he
says; "you were always a-cooking for everybody on your passage out."
And so I was,' said Mark, 'although I never cooked before, I'll take my
oath.'
'What did you say?' demanded Martin.
'Say!' cried Mark. 'That I'd take anything I could get. "If that's
so," says the mate, "why, bring a glass of rum;" which they brought
according.
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