Standing together, they have established a reign of terror and are
ruling the forecastle. All their training in New York in ruling the
slum brutes and weaklings in their gangs fits them for the part. As
near as I could make out from Wada's tale, they first began on the
two Italians in their watch, Guido Bombini and Mike Cipriani. By
means I cannot guess, they have reduced these two wretches to
trembling slaves. As an instance, the other night, according to the
ship's gossip, Bert Rhine made Bombini get out of bed and fetch him a
drink of water.
Isaac Chantz is likewise under their rule, though he is treated more
kindly. Herman Lunkenheimer, a good-natured but simple-minded dolt
of a German, received a severe beating from the three because he
refused to wash some of Nosey Murphy's dirty garments. The two
bosuns are in fear of their lives with this clique, which is growing;
for Steve Roberts, the ex-cowboy, and the white-slaver, Arthur
Deacon, have been admitted to it.
I am the only one aft who possesses this information, and I confess I
don't know what to do with it.
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