“JAPAN!” Humphrey exclaimed. “But I can’t go to Japan. I DON’T want to go to Japan”.
“Ha, ha, ha,” laughed the captain.
“Now you are on my ship, you must work. What can you do?”
“I don’t work”, Humphrey answered, “I’m a gentleman!”
“Well, Mr Gentleman,” said the captain.
“You have a job now. You work in the galley!”
Humphrey watched Wolf Larsen walk away. The captain was a very handsome man. he was a tall, strong man with blonde hair and blue eyes. he had an accent when he spoke.
“I think he is Swedish, Norwegian or Danish,” thought Humphrey.
The captain didn’t seem a wicked man but Humphrey saw that the sailors were afraid of him. “Excuse me,” Humphrey asked a sailor. “Where is the galley?” “It’s downstairs, at the front of the ship,” the sailor answered. “What do you do in the galley?” Humphrey asked.
“You cook and clean,” laughed the sailor.
