China Seas Page #7

- I got the bombs.

- Good, good. Let me have this one.

Keep clear till I blow my way out.

Thanks, Davids. Can you heave

the rest of them into that junk?

I'll try.

Davids, remember, after you pull the pin,

you only got five seconds until it goes off.

- You're crazy. You'll get us all killed.

- Get back!

One...

...two, three, four...

Hey, a little less noise, please.

Captain Gaskell?

- What did you find?

- Not even a scratch on the door, sir.

The arsenal must have

been opened with a key.

Tell the steward to bring

MacArdle and Portland to my cabin.

Listen, Dolly, where did you

put that half 100 note?

- I know it's safe, but I...

- I hid it.

- Where?

- In Gaskell's cabin, in a tin of cigarettes.

- Well, aren't you a wonder?

- It's safe.

He won't find it.

He doesn't smoke my kind.

- Quit worrying, I'll get it.

- No, you won't!

You'll stay right where you are

till this thing blows over.

Now, promise me that

you won't go near the place.

That's easy.

I wouldn't exactly enjoy looking...

Looking at his bandaged feet.

Well, that's too bad.

But what about us?

What about the poor devils he captured?

You know, I wouldn't put it past him

to use a Chinese boot on them.

- Lf he does, they'll talk.

- He won't use the boot.

- He'd never hit a man below the belt.

- We're not hung yet.

Gaskell may suspect the whole world,

but he's got to prove it.

- Let him prove it. Let him prove...

- Are you out of your mind?

All right, come in.

Captain Gaskell's compliments.

Will you come to his cabin?

And you, too, Miss Portland.

Just a minute.

- Jamesy, that...

- Wait a minute. It's a matter of routine.

If it comes to the worst, I'm the

only one he can prove anything against.

So you just sit tight

and keep a stiff upper lip.

All right, bozo.

Order me an upper and lower,

and I'll keep them both stiff.

All right, after you left

my cabin, where did you go?

- Back to my own quarters.

- What time?

- Half past 11.

- Was anybody there?

Isabelle. I told her to go to bed.

She said she was asleep

at a quarter after 9.

It's always a quarter after 9 to her.

It's the only time she knows.

- Anybody come to your cabin later?

- My dates are my own.

The deck watch saw a man

leaving your cabin after 1:00.

- That was you?

- Look here, Alan, that's not...

I'm conducting this inquiry, Sir Guy.

- That was you, wasn't it?

- You want me to blacken the lady's name?

- That was Jamesy?

- Supposing it was?

Why was he there?

He came to borrow a

hot-water bottle for one of his pigs.

- Got a cigarette, Jamesy?

- No, darling.

- Here, you better have one of your own.

- No, never mind...

No bother at all. I know

what these little attentions mean.

I don't want one now.

I guess it's just nerves.

I'm sorry you don't feel well.

You rode out the piracy in such good shape.

- Perhaps you'd like one.

- Well, thank you.

The captain is far more generous

with your cigarettes than you ever were.

Too generous. I guess I'll take them home

while there's still a couple left for myself.

- How many tins have you, Jamesy?

- One.

- Four and one are five. L...

- Lose any?

I thought I left six here.

Oh, yes. Yes, so you did. I almost forgot.

I don't understand this

cat-and-mouse business.

Is this the one?

Yes, that's it.

You won't find what you're looking for.

I have both halves of the 100 note.

What are you browbeating the girl for?

Just a minute, MacArdle. Your turn's next.

One half of the note was found on

a dead pirate. The other half was hidden...

...in her cigarette tin.

Hello.

- These Chinese characters look familiar.

- Yes, they're MacArdle's shipping symbol.

Well, that's queer.

If I wasn't sure of it...

...I'd swear that I wrote those characters.

- I'll swear you wrote them...

...before any admiralty court.

- What'll your oath prove?

Save your breath. Your men talked.

- You used the Chinese boot on them.

- No, I saved that for you if I needed it.

How did you get the ship's rifles? You

couldn't have done a thing without them.

You've answered all the

questions so far. Don't stop now.

All right, I won't. You gave him

the key to the arsenal.

- She gave me nothing.

- Only you knew where it was.

- You came to my cabin.

- Lots of times.

- Lifted the key, handed it over to MacArdle.

- That's a lie. I'll sue the line.

- Defaming a lady's character.

- Yes. Quartermaster.

- Yes, sir.

- Get the sergeant of the guard.

Send a radio message

to the police superintendent at Singapore.

- Tell him to meet us at the dock. Urgent.

- Urgent.

You better send for a squad of lawyers too,

if you're gonna pin anything on me.

- What a snake you are.

- What's that to you?

Getting into my cabin, waiting for a chance

to do your double-crossing.

Turning on your own people!

Sold out every man, woman and child!

All right, then I did.

I stole the key.

Yes, I stole it and gave it to Jamesy.

But I came to your cabin

to warn you about him.

Figure it out for yourself why I didn't.

I'd have stood and

fought back-to-back with you.

But you taught me something

I didn't even know myself.

When a woman can love a man

right down to her fingertips...

...she can hate him the same way.

Now, call your cops.

Call every cop in the country. I don't care!

If you can dish it out, I can take it!

You fool.

You hotheaded, crazy little fool.

And me thinking all the time

that my powers of fascination had won her.

Don't be so tough, Gaskell.

China Doll there had

nothing to do with it at all.

You think it's as simple as all that?

I'm not the judge, the jury and the law.

- You'll find that out soon enough.

- No, I won't.

I've fooled them many a time before,

and I've done it again.

I've cost you millions,

and I'd still be fooling them...

...if it wasn't

for the little yellow-haired lass...

...that wouldn't even give me

the time of the day.

- What's wrong, MacArdle?

- Nothing.

Nothing at all.

One of those pills will make a pig sleep

the entire voyage.

- I'll sleep until kingdom come.

- Get a doctor, quick.

Jamesy.

I had a chance, darling,

to throw you overboard.

If I had, I'd still be safe.

Loving you is the only decent thing

I ever did in my life.

Even that was a mistake.

- You sent for me, sir?

- Take Miss Portland to her cabin.

- Keep a close watch until further orders.

- Aye, sir.

Well, he's out of it anyway.

He finished the game the way he played it.

Yeah, tough.

He didn't yell "no dice" when

they rolled against him. I won't either.

Good luck, toots.

Singapore.

So am I. Where are you from?

Lordy, lordy. Now I got enough

clothes to last me a million years.

I hope you have better luck in them than I.

Don't you worry, Miss Dolly,

I got me a conjure.

The left hind leg of a cat

that's been killed by a snakebite.

Nothing gonna touch me,

no matter what they does to you.

Yes?

Darling,

have you put your house in order?

No, it's in a worse mess than ever.

Sybil, I should have told you.

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