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+    <h2>THE END OF THE TETHER</h2>
+    <p>By Joseph Conrad</p>
+    <h3>Chapter I</h3>
+    <p>For a long time after the course of the steamer <em>Sofala</em> had been
+    altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance
+    of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays
+    seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to shatter themselves
+    upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust, into a dazzling vapor
+    of light that blinded the eye and wearied the brain with its unsteady
+    brightness.</p>
+    <p>Captain Whalley did not look at it. When his Serang, approaching the
+    roomy cane arm-chair which he filled capably, had informed him in a low
+    voice that the course was to be altered, he had risen at once and had
+    remained on his feet, face forward, while the head of his ship swung
+    through a quarter of a circle. He had not uttered a single word, not
+    even the word to steady the helm. It was the Serang, an elderly, alert,
+    little Malay, with a very dark skin, who murmured the order to the
+    helmsman. And then slowly Captain Whalley sat down again in the
+    arm-chair on the bridge and fixed his eyes on the deck between his feet.</p>
+    <p>He could not hope to see anything new upon this lane of the sea. He had
+    been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan
+    the distance was fifty miles, six hours' steaming for the old ship with
+    the tide, or seven against. Then you steered straight for the land, and
+    by-and-by three palms would appear on the sky, tall and slim, and with
+    their disheveled heads in a bunch, as if in confidential criticism of
+    the dark mangroves. The Sofala would be headed towards the somber
+    strip of the coast, which at a given moment, as the ship closed with
+    it obliquely, would show several clean shining fractures--the brimful
+    estuary of a river. Then on through a brown liquid, three parts water
+    and one part black earth, on and on between the low shores, three parts
+    black earth and one part brackish water, the Sofala would plow her way
+    up-stream, as she had done once every month for these seven years or
+    more, long before he was aware of her existence, long before he had ever
+    thought of having anything to do with her and her invariable voyages.
+    The old ship ought to have known the road better than her men, who had
+    not been kept so long at it without a change; better than the faithful
+    Serang, whom he had brought over from his last ship to keep the
+    captain's watch; better than he himself, who had been her captain for
+    the last three years only. She could always be depended upon to make her
+    courses. Her compasses were never out. She was no trouble at all to
+    take about, as if her great age had given her knowledge, wisdom, and
+    steadiness. She made her landfalls to a degree of the bearing, and
+    almost to a minute of her allowed time. At any moment, as he sat on
+    the bridge without looking up, or lay sleepless in his bed, simply by
+    reckoning the days and the hours he could tell where he was--the precise
+    spot of the beat. He knew it well too, this monotonous huckster's
+    round, up and down the Straits; he knew its order and its sights and its
+    people. Malacca to begin with, in at daylight and out at dusk, to cross
+    over with a rigid phosphorescent wake this highway of the Far East.
+    Darkness and gleams on the water, clear stars on a black sky, perhaps
+    the lights of a home steamer keeping her unswerving course in the
+    middle, or maybe the elusive shadow of a native craft with her mat sails
+    flitting by silently--and the low land on the other side in sight
+    at daylight. At noon the three palms of the next place of call, up a
+    sluggish river. The only white man residing there was a retired young
+    sailor, with whom he had become friendly in the course of many voyages.
+    Sixty miles farther on there was another place of call, a deep bay with
+    only a couple of houses on the beach. And so on, in and out, picking
+    up coastwise cargo here and there, and finishing with a hundred miles'
+    steady steaming through the maze of an archipelago of small islands up
+    to a large native town at the end of the beat. There was a three days'
+    rest for the old ship before he started her again in inverse order,
+    seeing the same shores from another bearing, hearing the same voices
+    in the same places, back again to the Sofala's port of registry on
+    the great highway to the East, where he would take up a berth nearly
+    opposite the big stone pile of the harbor office till it was time to
+    start again on the old round of 1600 miles and thirty days. Not a very
+    enterprising life, this, for Captain Whalley, Henry Whalley, otherwise
+    Dare-devil Harry--Whalley of the Condor, a famous clipper in her day.
+    No. Not a very enterprising life for a man who had served famous firms,
+    who had sailed famous ships (more than one or two of them his own); who
+    had made famous passages, had been the pioneer of new routes and new
+    trades; who had steered across the unsurveyed tracts of the South Seas,
+    and had seen the sun rise on uncharted islands. Fifty years at sea, and
+    forty out in the East ("a pretty thorough apprenticeship," he used
+    to remark smilingly), had made him honorably known to a generation of
+    shipowners and merchants in all the ports from Bombay clear over to
+    where the East merges into the West upon the coast of the two Americas.
+    His fame remained writ, not very large but plain enough, on the
+    Admiralty charts. Was there not somewhere between Australia and China a
+    Whalley Island and a Condor Reef? On that dangerous coral formation the
+    celebrated clipper had hung stranded for three days, her captain and
+    crew throwing her cargo overboard with one hand and with the other, as
+    it were, keeping off her a flotilla of savage war-canoes. At that time
+    neither the island nor the reef had any official existence. Later the
+    officers of her Majesty's steam vessel Fusilier, dispatched to make a
+    survey of the route, recognized in the adoption of these two names the
+    enterprise of the man and the solidity of the ship. Besides, as anyone
+    who cares may see, the "General Directory," vol. ii. p. 410, begins the
+    description of the "Malotu or Whalley Passage" with the words: "This
+    advantageous route, first discovered in 1850 by Captain Whalley in the
+    ship Condor," &amp;c., and ends by recommending it warmly to sailing vessels
+    leaving the China ports for the south in the months from December to
+    April inclusive.</p>
+    <p>This was the clearest gain he had out of life. Nothing could rob him
+    of this kind of fame. The piercing of the Isthmus of Suez, like the
+    breaking of a dam, had let in upon the East a flood of new ships, new
+    men, new methods of trade. It had changed the face of the Eastern seas
+    and the very spirit of their life; so that his early experiences meant
+    nothing whatever to the new generation of seamen.</p>
+    <p>In those bygone days he had handled many thousands of pounds of his
+    employers' money and of his own; he had attended faithfully, as by law
+    a shipmaster is expected to do, to the conflicting interests of owners,
+    charterers, and underwriters. He had never lost a ship or consented to
+    a shady transaction; and he had lasted well, outlasting in the end the
+    conditions that had gone to the making of his name. He had buried his
+    wife (in the Gulf of Petchili), had married off his daughter to the man
+    of her unlucky choice, and had lost more than an ample competence in the
+    crash of the notorious Travancore and Deccan Banking Corporation, whose
+    downfall had shaken the East like an earthquake. And he was sixty-five
+    years old.</p>
+    <h3>Chapter II</h3>
+    <p>His age sat lightly enough on him; and of his ruin he was not ashamed.
+    He had not been alone to believe in the stability of the Banking
+    Corporation. Men whose judgment in matters of finance was as expert as
+    his seamanship had commended the prudence of his investments, and had
+    themselves lost much money in the great failure. The only difference
+    between him and them was that he had lost his all. And yet not his all.
+    There had remained to him from his lost fortune a very pretty little
+    bark, Fair Maid, which he had bought to occupy his leisure of a retired
+    sailor--"to play with," as he expressed it himself.</p>
+    <p>He had formally declared himself tired of the sea the year preceding his
+    daughter's marriage. But after the young couple had gone to settle in
+    Melbourne he found out that he could not make himself happy on shore. He
+    was too much of a merchant sea-captain for mere yachting to satisfy him.
+    He wanted the illusion of affairs; and his acquisition of the Fair
+    Maid preserved the continuity of his life. He introduced her to his
+    acquaintances in various ports as "my last command." When he grew too
+    old to be trusted with a ship, he would lay her up and go ashore to be
+    buried, leaving directions in his will to have the bark towed out and
+    scuttled decently in deep water on the day of the funeral. His daughter
+    would not grudge him the satisfaction of knowing that no stranger would
+    handle his last command after him. With the fortune he was able to leave
+    her, the value of a 500-ton bark was neither here nor there. All this
+    would be said with a jocular twinkle in his eye: the vigorous old man
+    had too much vitality for the sentimentalism of regret; and a little
+    wistfully withal, because he was at home in life, taking a genuine
+    pleasure in its feelings and its possessions; in the dignity of his
+    reputation and his wealth, in his love for his daughter, and in his
+    satisfaction with the ship--the plaything of his lonely leisure.</p>
+    <p>He had the cabin arranged in accordance with his simple ideal of comfort
+    at sea. A big bookcase (he was a great reader) occupied one side of his
+    stateroom; the portrait of his late wife, a flat bituminous oil-painting
+    representing the profile and one long black ringlet of a young woman,
+    faced his bed-place. Three chronometers ticked him to sleep and greeted
+    him on waking with the tiny competition of their beats. He rose at five
+    every day. The officer of the morning watch, drinking his early cup
+    of coffee aft by the wheel, would hear through the wide orifice of the
+    copper ventilators all the splashings, blowings, and splutterings of
+    his captain's toilet. These noises would be followed by a sustained
+    deep murmur of the Lord's Prayer recited in a loud earnest voice. Five
+    minutes afterwards the head and shoulders of Captain Whalley emerged
+    out of the companion-hatchway. Invariably he paused for a while on the
+    stairs, looking all round at the horizon; upwards at the trim of the
+    sails; inhaling deep draughts of the fresh air. Only then he would step
+    out on the poop, acknowledging the hand raised to the peak of the cap
+    with a majestic and benign "Good morning to you." He walked the deck
+    till eight scrupulously. Sometimes, not above twice a year, he had to
+    use a thick cudgel-like stick on account of a stiffness in the hip--a
+    slight touch of rheumatism, he supposed. Otherwise he knew nothing of
+    the ills of the flesh. At the ringing of the breakfast bell he went
+    below to feed his canaries, wind up the chronometers, and take the
+    head of the table. From there he had before his eyes the big carbon
+    photographs of his daughter, her husband, and two fat-legged babies
+    --his grandchildren--set in black frames into the maplewood bulkheads
+    of the cuddy. After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits
+    himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painting of his wife with a
+    plumate kept suspended from a small brass hook by the side of the heavy
+    gold frame. Then with the door of his stateroom shut, he would sit down
+    on the couch under the portrait to read a chapter out of a thick pocket
+    Bible--her Bible. But on some days he only sat there for half an hour
+    with his finger between the leaves and the closed book resting on his
+    knees. Perhaps he had remembered suddenly how fond of boat-sailing she
+    used to be.</p>
+    <p>She had been a real shipmate and a true woman too. It was like an
+    article of faith with him that there never had been, and never could be,
+    a brighter, cheerier home anywhere afloat or ashore than his home under
+    the poop-deck of the Condor, with the big main cabin all white and gold,
+    garlanded as if for a perpetual festival with an unfading wreath. She
+    had decorated the center of every panel with a cluster of home flowers.
+    It took her a twelvemonth to go round the cuddy with this labor of love.
+    To him it had remained a marvel of painting, the highest achievement of
+    taste and skill; and as to old Swinburne, his mate, every time he
+    came down to his meals he stood transfixed with admiration before the
+    progress of the work. You could almost smell these roses, he declared,
+    sniffing the faint flavor of turpentine which at that time pervaded the
+    saloon, and (as he confessed afterwards) made him somewhat less hearty
+    than usual in tackling his food. But there was nothing of the sort to
+    interfere with his enjoyment of her singing. "Mrs. Whalley is a regular
+    out-and-out nightingale, sir," he would pronounce with a judicial air
+    after listening profoundly over the skylight to the very end of the
+    piece. In fine weather, in the second dog-watch, the two men could hear
+    her trills and roulades going on to the accompaniment of the piano in
+    the cabin. On the very day they got engaged he had written to London
+    for the instrument; but they had been married for over a year before it
+    reached them, coming out round the Cape. The big case made part of the
+    first direct general cargo landed in Hong-kong harbor--an event that to
+    the men who walked the busy quays of to-day seemed as hazily remote as
+    the dark ages of history. But Captain Whalley could in a half hour of
+    solitude live again all his life, with its romance, its idyl, and its
+    sorrow. He had to close her eyes himself. She went away from under the
+    ensign like a sailor's wife, a sailor herself at heart. He had read
+    the service over her, out of her own prayer-book, without a break in his
+    voice. When he raised his eyes he could see old Swinburne facing him
+    with his cap pressed to his breast, and his rugged, weather-beaten,
+    impassive face streaming with drops of water like a lump of chipped red
+    granite in a shower. It was all very well for that old sea-dog to cry.
+    He had to read on to the end; but after the splash he did not remember
+    much of what happened for the next few days. An elderly sailor of the
+    crew, deft at needlework, put together a mourning frock for the child
+    out of one of her black skirts.</p>
+    <p>He was not likely to forget; but you cannot dam up life like a sluggish
+    stream. It will break out and flow over a man's troubles, it will close
+    upon a sorrow like the sea upon a dead body, no matter how much love has
+    gone to the bottom. And the world is not bad. People had been very
+    kind to him; especially Mrs. Gardner, the wife of the senior partner
+    in Gardner, Patteson, &amp; Co., the owners of the Condor. It was she who
+    volunteered to look after the little one, and in due course took her to
+    England (something of a journey in those days, even by the overland
+    mail route) with her own girls to finish her education. It was ten years
+    before he saw her again.</p>
+    <p>As a little child she had never been frightened of bad weather; she
+    would beg to be taken up on deck in the bosom of his oilskin coat to
+    watch the big seas hurling themselves upon the Condor. The swirl and
+    crash of the waves seemed to fill her small soul with a breathless
+    delight. "A good boy spoiled," he used to say of her in joke. He had
+    named her Ivy because of the sound of the word, and obscurely fascinated
+    by a vague association of ideas. She had twined herself tightly round
+    his heart, and he intended her to cling close to her father as to a
+    tower of strength; forgetting, while she was little, that in the nature
+    of things she would probably elect to cling to someone else. But
+    he loved life well enough for even that event to give him a certain
+    satisfaction, apart from his more intimate feeling of loss.</p>
+    <p>After he had purchased the Fair Maid to occupy his loneliness, he
+    hastened to accept a rather unprofitable freight to Australia simply for
+    the opportunity of seeing his daughter in her own home. What made him
+    dissatisfied there was not to see that she clung now to somebody else,
+    but that the prop she had selected seemed on closer examination "a
+    rather poor stick"--even in the matter of health. He disliked his
+    son-in-law's studied civility perhaps more than his method of
+    handling the sum of money he had given Ivy at her marriage. But of his
+    apprehensions he said nothing. Only on the day of his departure, with
+    the hall-door open already, holding her hands and looking steadily into
+    her eyes, he had said, "You know, my dear, all I have is for you and the
+    chicks. Mind you write to me openly." She had answered him by an almost
+    imperceptible movement of her head. She resembled her mother in
+    the color of her eyes, and in character--and also in this, that she
+    understood him without many words.</p>
+    <p>Sure enough she had to write; and some of these letters made Captain
+    Whalley lift his white eye-brows. For the rest he considered he was
+    reaping the true reward of his life by being thus able to produce on
+    demand whatever was needed. He had not enjoyed himself so much in a
+    way since his wife had died. Characteristically enough his son-in-law's
+    punctuality in failure caused him at a distance to feel a sort of
+    kindness towards the man. The fellow was so perpetually being jammed on
+    a lee shore that to charge it all to his reckless navigation would be
+    manifestly unfair. No, no! He knew well what that meant. It was bad
+    luck. His own had been simply marvelous, but he had seen in his life too
+    many good men--seamen and others--go under with the sheer weight of bad
+    luck not to recognize the fatal signs. For all that, he was cogitating
+    on the best way of tying up very strictly every penny he had to leave,
+    when, with a preliminary rumble of rumors (whose first sound reached
+    him in Shanghai as it happened), the shock of the big failure came;
+    and, after passing through the phases of stupor, of incredulity, of
+    indignation, he had to accept the fact that he had nothing to speak of
+    to leave.</p>
+    <p>Upon that, as if he had only waited for this catastrophe, the unlucky
+    man, away there in Melbourne, gave up his unprofitable game, and sat
+    down--in an invalid's bath-chair at that too. "He will never walk
+    again," wrote the wife. For the first time in his life Captain Whalley
+    was a bit staggered.</p>
+    <p>The Fair Maid had to go to work in bitter earnest now. It was no longer
+    a matter of preserving alive the memory of Dare-devil Harry Whalley in
+    the Eastern Seas, or of keeping an old man in pocket-money and clothes,
+    with, perhaps, a bill for a few hundred first-class cigars thrown in at
+    the end of the year. He would have to buckle-to, and keep her going hard
+    on a scant allowance of gilt for the ginger-bread scrolls at her stem
+    and stern.</p>
+    <p>This necessity opened his eyes to the fundamental changes of the world.
+    Of his past only the familiar names remained, here and there, but
+    the things and the men, as he had known them, were gone. The name of
+    Gardner, Patteson, &amp; Co. was still displayed on the walls of warehouses
+    by the waterside, on the brass plates and window-panes in the business
+    quarters of more than one Eastern port, but there was no longer a
+    Gardner or a Patteson in the firm. There was no longer for Captain
+    Whalley an arm-chair and a welcome in the private office, with a bit of
+    business ready to be put in the way of an old friend, for the sake of
+    bygone services. The husbands of the Gardner girls sat behind the desks
+    in that room where, long after he had left the employ, he had kept his
+    right of entrance in the old man's time. Their ships now had yellow
+    funnels with black tops, and a time-table of appointed routes like a
+    confounded service of tramways. The winds of December and June were all
+    one to them; their captains (excellent young men he doubted not) were,
+    to be sure, familiar with Whalley Island, because of late years the
+    Government had established a white fixed light on the north end (with
+    a red danger sector over the Condor Reef), but most of them would have
+    been extremely surprised to hear that a flesh-and-blood Whalley still
+    existed--an old man going about the world trying to pick up a cargo here
+    and there for his little bark.</p>
+    <p>And everywhere it was the same. Departed the men who would have nodded
+    appreciatively at the mention of his name, and would have thought
+    themselves bound in honor to do something for Dare-devil Harry Whalley.
+    Departed the opportunities which he would have known how to seize; and
+    gone with them the white-winged flock of clippers that lived in the
+    boisterous uncertain life of the winds, skimming big fortunes out of
+    the foam of the sea. In a world that pared down the profits to an
+    irreducible minimum, in a world that was able to count its disengaged
+    tonnage twice over every day, and in which lean charters were snapped up
+    by cable three months in advance, there were no chances of fortune for
+    an individual wandering haphazard with a little bark--hardly indeed any
+    room to exist.</p>
+    <p>He found it more difficult from year to year. He suffered greatly from
+    the smallness of remittances he was able to send his daughter. Meantime
+    he had given up good cigars, and even in the matter of inferior cheroots
+    limited himself to six a day. He never told her of his difficulties, and
+    she never enlarged upon her struggle to live. Their confidence in each
+    other needed no explanations, and their perfect understanding endured
+    without protestations of gratitude or regret. He would have been shocked
+    if she had taken it into her head to thank him in so many words, but
+    he found it perfectly natural that she should tell him she needed two
+    hundred pounds.</p>
+    <p>He had come in with the Fair Maid in ballast to look for a freight in
+    the Sofala's port of registry, and her letter met him there. Its tenor
+    was that it was no use mincing matters. Her only resource was in opening
+    a boarding-house, for which the prospects, she judged, were good. Good
+    enough, at any rate, to make her tell him frankly that with two hundred
+    pounds she could make a start. He had torn the envelope open, hastily,
+    on deck, where it was handed to him by the ship-chandler's runner, who
+    had brought his mail at the moment of anchoring. For the second time
+    in his life he was appalled, and remained stock-still at the cabin door
+    with the paper trembling between his fingers. Open a boarding-house! Two
+    hundred pounds for a start! The only resource! And he did not know where
+    to lay his hands on two hundred pence.</p>
+    <p>All that night Captain Whalley walked the poop of his anchored ship, as
+    though he had been about to close with the land in thick weather, and
+    uncertain of his position after a run of many gray days without a sight
+    of sun, moon, or stars. The black night twinkled with the guiding lights
+    of seamen and the steady straight lines of lights on shore; and all
+    around the Fair Maid the riding lights of ships cast trembling trails
+    upon the water of the roadstead. Captain Whalley saw not a gleam
+    anywhere till the dawn broke and he found out that his clothing was
+    soaked through with the heavy dew.</p>
+    <p>His ship was awake. He stopped short, stroked his wet beard, and
+    descended the poop ladder backwards, with tired feet. At the sight
+    of him the chief officer, lounging about sleepily on the quarterdeck,
+    remained open-mouthed in the middle of a great early-morning yawn.</p>
+    <p>"Good morning to you," pronounced Captain Whalley solemnly, passing into
+    the cabin. But he checked himself in the doorway, and without looking
+    back, "By the bye," he said, "there should be an empty wooden case put
+    away in the lazarette. It has not been broken up--has it?"</p>
+    <p>The mate shut his mouth, and then asked as if dazed, "What empty case,
+    sir?"</p>
+    <p>"A big flat packing-case belonging to that painting in my room. Let it
+    be taken up on deck and tell the carpenter to look it over. I may want
+    to use it before long."</p>
+    <p>The chief officer did not stir a limb till he had heard the door of the
+    captain's state-room slam within the cuddy. Then he beckoned aft the
+    second mate with his forefinger to tell him that there was something "in
+    the wind."</p>
+    <p>When the bell rang Captain Whalley's authoritative voice boomed out
+    through a closed door, "Sit down and don't wait for me." And his
+    impressed officers took their places, exchanging looks and whispers
+    across the table. What! No breakfast? And after apparently knocking
+    about all night on deck, too! Clearly, there was something in the wind.
+    In the skylight above their heads, bowed earnestly over the plates,
+    three wire cages rocked and rattled to the restless jumping of the
+    hungry canaries; and they could detect the sounds of their "old
+    man's" deliberate movements within his state-room. Captain Whalley was
+    methodically winding up the chronometers, dusting the portrait of
+    his late wife, getting a clean white shirt out of the drawers, making
+    himself ready in his punctilious unhurried manner to go ashore. He could
+    not have swallowed a single mouthful of food that morning. He had made
+    up his mind to sell the Fair Maid.</p>
+    <h3>Chapter III</h3>
+    <p>Just at that time the Japanese were casting far and wide for ships
+    of European build, and he had no difficulty in finding a purchaser, a
+    speculator who drove a hard bargain, but paid cash down for the Fair
+    Maid, with a view to a profitable resale. Thus it came about that
+    Captain Whalley found himself on a certain afternoon descending the
+    steps of one of the most important post-offices of the East with a slip
+    of bluish paper in his hand. This was the receipt of a registered letter
+    enclosing a draft for two hundred pounds, and addressed to Melbourne.
+    Captain Whalley pushed the paper into his waistcoat-pocket, took his
+    stick from under his arm, and walked down the street.</p>
+    <p>It was a recently opened and untidy thoroughfare with rudimentary
+    side-walks and a soft layer of dust cushioning the whole width of
+    the road. One end touched the slummy street of Chinese shops near the
+    harbor, the other drove straight on, without houses, for a couple of
+    miles, through patches of jungle-like vegetation, to the yard gates
+    of the new Consolidated Docks Company. The crude frontages of the new
+    Government buildings alternated with the blank fencing of vacant plots,
+    and the view of the sky seemed to give an added spaciousness to the
+    broad vista. It was empty and shunned by natives after business
+    hours, as though they had expected to see one of the tigers from the
+    neighborhood of the New Waterworks on the hill coming at a loping canter
+    down the middle to get a Chinese shopkeeper for supper. Captain Whalley
+    was not dwarfed by the solitude of the grandly planned street. He
+    had too fine a presence for that. He was only a lonely figure walking
+    purposefully, with a great white beard like a pilgrim, and with a thick
+    stick that resembled a weapon. On one side the new Courts of Justice had
+    a low and unadorned portico of squat columns half concealed by a few old
+    trees left in the approach. On the other the pavilion wings of the
+    new Colonial Treasury came out to the line of the street. But Captain
+    Whalley, who had now no ship and no home, remembered in passing that
+    on that very site when he first came out from England there had stood a
+    fishing village, a few mat huts erected on piles between a muddy tidal
+    creek and a miry pathway that went writhing into a tangled wilderness
+    without any docks or waterworks.</p>
+    <p>No ship--no home. And his poor Ivy away there had no home either. A
+    boarding-house is no sort of home though it may get you a living. His
+    feelings were horribly rasped by the idea of the boarding-house. In his
+    rank of life he had that truly aristocratic temperament characterized by
+    a scorn of vulgar gentility and by prejudiced views as to the derogatory
+    nature of certain occupations. For his own part he had always preferred
+    sailing merchant ships (which is a straightforward occupation) to buying
+    and selling merchandise, of which the essence is to get the better of
+    somebody in a bargain--an undignified trial of wits at best. His father
+    had been Colonel Whalley (retired) of the H. E. I. Company's service,
+    with very slender means besides his pension, but with distinguished
+    connections. He could remember as a boy how frequently waiters at the
+    inns, country tradesmen and small people of that sort, used to "My lord"
+    the old warrior on the strength of his appearance.</p>
+    <p>Captain Whalley himself (he would have entered the Navy if his father
+    had not died before he was fourteen) had something of a grand air which
+    would have suited an old and glorious admiral; but he became lost like
+    a straw in the eddy of a brook amongst the swarm of brown and yellow
+    humanity filling a thoroughfare, that by contrast with the vast and
+    empty avenue he had left seemed as narrow as a lane and absolutely
+    riotous with life. The walls of the houses were blue; the shops of the
+    Chinamen yawned like cavernous lairs; heaps of nondescript merchandise
+    overflowed the gloom of the long range of arcades, and the fiery
+    serenity of sunset took the middle of the street from end to end with a
+    glow like the reflection of a fire. It fell on the bright colors and the
+    dark faces of the bare-footed crowd, on the pallid yellow backs of the
+    half-naked jostling coolies, on the accouterments of a tall Sikh trooper
+    with a parted beard and fierce mustaches on sentry before the gate of
+    the police compound. Looming very big above the heads in a red haze of
+    dust, the tightly packed car of the cable tramway navigated cautiously
+    up the human stream, with the incessant blare of its horn, in the manner
+    of a steamer groping in a fog.</p>
+    <p>Captain Whalley emerged like a diver on the other side, and in the
+    desert shade between the walls of closed warehouses removed his hat to
+    cool his brow. A certain disrepute attached to the calling of a
+    landlady of a boarding-house. These women were said to be rapacious,
+    unscrupulous, untruthful; and though he contemned no class of his
+    fellow-creatures--God forbid!--these were suspicions to which it was
+    unseemly that a Whalley should lay herself open. He had not expostulated
+    with her, however. He was confident she shared his feelings; he was
+    sorry for her; he trusted her judgment; he considered it a merciful
+    dispensation that he could help her once more,--but in his aristocratic
+    heart of hearts he would have found it more easy to reconcile himself to
+    the idea of her turning seamstress. Vaguely he remembered reading years
+    ago a touching piece called the "Song of the Shirt." It was all very
+    well making songs about poor women. The granddaughter of Colonel
+    Whalley, the landlady of a boarding-house! Pooh! He replaced his hat,
+    dived into two pockets, and stopping a moment to apply a flaring match
+    to the end of a cheap cheroot, blew an embittered cloud of smoke at a
+    world that could hold such surprises.</p>
+    <p>Of one thing he was certain--that she was the own child of a clever
+    mother. Now he had got over the wrench of parting with his ship, he
+    perceived clearly that such a step had been unavoidable. Perhaps he had
+    been growing aware of it all along with an unconfessed knowledge. But
+    she, far away there, must have had an intuitive perception of it, with
+    the pluck to face that truth and the courage to speak out--all the
+    qualities which had made her mother a woman of such excellent counsel.</p>
+    <p>It would have had to come to that in the end! It was fortunate she had
+    forced his hand. In another year or two it would have been an utterly
+    barren sale. To keep the ship going he had been involving himself deeper
+    every year. He was defenseless before the insidious work of adversity,
+    to whose more open assaults he could present a firm front; like a
+    cliff that stands unmoved the open battering of the sea, with a lofty
+    ignorance of the treacherous backwash undermining its base. As it was,
+    every liability satisfied, her request answered, and owing no man a
+    penny, there remained to him from the proceeds a sum of five hundred
+    pounds put away safely. In addition he had upon his person some forty
+    odd dollars--enough to pay his hotel bill, providing he did not linger
+    too long in the modest bedroom where he had taken refuge.</p>
+    <p>Scantily furnished, and with a waxed floor, it opened into one of
+    the side-verandas. The straggling building of bricks, as airy as a
+    bird-cage, resounded with the incessant flapping of rattan screens
+    worried by the wind between the white-washed square pillars of the
+    sea-front. The rooms were lofty, a ripple of sunshine flowed over the
+    ceilings; and the periodical invasions of tourists from some passenger
+    steamer in the harbor flitted through the wind-swept dusk of the
+    apartments with the tumult of their unfamiliar voices and impermanent
+    presences, like relays of migratory shades condemned to speed headlong
+    round the earth without leaving a trace. The babble of their irruptions
+    ebbed out as suddenly as it had arisen; the draughty corridors and
+    the long chairs of the verandas knew their sight-seeing hurry or
+    their prostrate repose no more; and Captain Whalley, substantial and
+    dignified, left well-nigh alone in the vast hotel by each light-hearted
+    skurry, felt more and more like a stranded tourist with no aim in view,
+    like a forlorn traveler without a home. In the solitude of his room he
+    smoked thoughtfully, gazing at the two sea-chests which held all that he
+    could call his own in this world. A thick roll of charts in a sheath
+    of sailcloth leaned in a corner; the flat packing-case containing the
+    portrait in oils and the three carbon photographs had been pushed under
+    the bed. He was tired of discussing terms, of assisting at surveys, of
+    all the routine of the business. What to the other parties was merely
+    the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically
+    new view of existence. He knew that after this ship there would be no
+    other; and the hopes of his youth, the exercise of his abilities, every
+    feeling and achievement of his manhood, had been indissolubly connected
+    with ships. He had served ships; he had owned ships; and even the years
+    of his actual retirement from the sea had been made bearable by the idea
+    that he had only to stretch out his hand full of money to get a ship. He
+    had been at liberty to feel as though he were the owner of all the
+    ships in the world. The selling of this one was weary work; but when
+    she passed from him at last, when he signed the last receipt, it was as
+    though all the ships had gone out of the world together, leaving him on
+    the shore of inaccessible oceans with seven hundred pounds in his hands.</p>
+    <p>Striding firmly, without haste, along the quay, Captain Whalley averted
+    his glances from the familiar roadstead. Two generations of seamen born
+    since his first day at sea stood between him and all these ships at the
+    anchorage. His own was sold, and he had been asking himself, What next?</p>
+    <p>From the feeling of loneliness, of inward emptiness,--and of loss
+    too, as if his very soul had been taken out of him forcibly,--there had
+    sprung at first a desire to start right off and join his daughter.
+    "Here are the last pence," he would say to her; "take them, my dear. And
+    here's your old father: you must take him too."</p>
+    <p>His soul recoiled, as if afraid of what lay hidden at the bottom of
+    this impulse. Give up! Never! When one is thoroughly weary all sorts of
+    nonsense come into one's head. A pretty gift it would have been for a
+    poor woman--this seven hundred pounds with the incumbrance of a hale old
+    fellow more than likely to last for years and years to come. Was he not
+    as fit to die in harness as any of the youngsters in charge of these
+    anchored ships out yonder? He was as solid now as ever he had been. But
+    as to who would give him work to do, that was another matter. Were he,
+    with his appearance and antecedents, to go about looking for a junior's
+    berth, people, he was afraid, would not take him seriously; or else if
+    he succeeded in impressing them, he would maybe obtain their pity, which
+    would be like stripping yourself naked to be kicked. He was not anxious
+    to give himself away for less than nothing. He had no use for anybody's
+    pity. On the other hand, a command--the only thing he could try for with
+    due regard for common decency--was not likely to be lying in wait
+    for him at the corner of the next street. Commands don't go a-begging
+    nowadays. Ever since he had come ashore to carry out the business of
+    the sale he had kept his ears open, but had heard no hint of one being
+    vacant in the port. And even if there had been one, his successful past
+    itself stood in his way. He had been his own employer too long. The only
+    credential he could produce was the testimony of his whole life. What
+    better recommendation could anyone require? But vaguely he felt that
+    the unique document would be looked upon as an archaic curiosity of the
+    Eastern waters, a screed traced in obsolete words--in a half-forgotten
+    language.</p>
+    <h3>Chapter IV</h3>
+    <p>Revolving these thoughts, he strolled on near the railings of the quay,
+    broad-chested, without a stoop, as though his big shoulders had never
+    felt the burden of the loads that must be carried between the cradle
+    and the grave. No single betraying fold or line of care disfigured the
+    reposeful modeling of his face. It was full and untanned; and the upper
+    part emerged, massively quiet, out of the downward flow of silvery hair,
+    with the striking delicacy of its clear complexion and the powerful
+    width of the forehead. The first cast of his glance fell on you candid
+    and swift, like a boy's; but because of the ragged snowy thatch of the
+    eyebrows the affability of his attention acquired the character of a
+    dark and searching scrutiny. With age he had put on flesh a little, had
+    increased his girth like an old tree presenting no symptoms of decay;
+    and even the opulent, lustrous ripple of white hairs upon his chest
+    seemed an attribute of unquenchable vitality and vigor.</p>
+    <p>Once rather proud of his great bodily strength, and even of his personal
+    appearance, conscious of his worth, and firm in his rectitude, there had
+    remained to him, like the heritage of departed prosperity, the tranquil
+    bearing of a man who had proved himself fit in every sort of way for the
+    life of his choice. He strode on squarely under the projecting brim of
+    an ancient Panama hat. It had a low crown, a crease through its whole
+    diameter, a narrow black ribbon. Imperishable and a little discolored,
+    this headgear made it easy to pick him out from afar on thronged wharves
+    and in the busy streets. He had never adopted the comparatively modern
+    fashion of pipeclayed cork helmets. He disliked the form; and he hoped
+    he could manage to keep a cool head to the end of his life without all
+    these contrivances for hygienic ventilation. His hair was cropped close,
+    his linen always of immaculate whiteness; a suit of thin gray flannel,
+    worn threadbare but scrupulously brushed, floated about his burly limbs,
+    adding to his bulk by the looseness of its cut. The years had mellowed
+    the good-humored, imperturbable audacity of his prime into a temper
+    carelessly serene; and the leisurely tapping of his iron-shod stick
+    accompanied his footfalls with a self-confident sound on the flagstones.
+    It was impossible to connect such a fine presence and this unruffled
+    aspect with the belittling troubles of poverty; the man's whole
+    existence appeared to pass before you, facile and large, in the freedom
+    of means as ample as the clothing of his body.</p>
+    <p>The irrational dread of having to break into his five hundred pounds for
+    personal expenses in the hotel disturbed the steady poise of his mind.
+    There was no time to lose. The bill was running up. He nourished the
+    hope that this five hundred would perhaps be the means, if everything
+    else failed, of obtaining some work which, keeping his body and soul
+    together (not a matter of great outlay), would enable him to be of use
+    to his daughter. To his mind it was her own money which he employed, as
+    it were, in backing her father and solely for her benefit. Once at work,
+    he would help her with the greater part of his earnings; he was good for
+    many years yet, and this boarding-house business, he argued to himself,
+    whatever the prospects, could not be much of a gold-mine from the first
+    start. But what work? He was ready to lay hold of anything in an honest
+    way so that it came quickly to his hand; because the five hundred pounds
+    must be preserved intact for eventual use. That was the great point.
+    With the entire five hundred one felt a substance at one's back; but
+    it seemed to him that should he let it dwindle to four-fifty or even
+    four-eighty, all the efficiency would be gone out of the money, as though
+    there were some magic power in the round figure. But what sort of work?</p>
+    <p>Confronted by that haunting question as by an uneasy ghost, for whom he
+    had no exorcising formula, Captain Whalley stopped short on the apex
+    of a small bridge spanning steeply the bed of a canalized creek with
+    granite shores. Moored between the square blocks a seagoing Malay prau
+    floated half hidden under the arch of masonry, with her spars lowered
+    down, without a sound of life on board, and covered from stem to stern
+    with a ridge of palm-leaf mats. He had left behind him the overheated
+    pavements bordered by the stone frontages that, like the sheer face of
+    cliffs, followed the sweep of the quays; and an unconfined spaciousness
+    of orderly and sylvan aspect opened before him its wide plots of rolled
+    grass, like pieces of green carpet smoothly pegged out, its long ranges
+    of trees lined up in colossal porticos of dark shafts roofed with a
+    vault of branches.</p>
+    <p>Some of these avenues ended at the sea. It was a terraced shore; and
+    beyond, upon the level expanse, profound and glistening like the gaze
+    of a dark-blue eye, an oblique band of stippled purple lengthened itself
+    indefinitely through the gap between a couple of verdant twin islets.
+    The masts and spars of a few ships far away, hull down in the outer
+    roads, sprang straight from the water in a fine maze of rosy lines
+    penciled on the clear shadow of the eastern board. Captain Whalley gave
+    them a long glance. The ship, once his own, was anchored out there. It
+    was staggering to think that it was open to him no longer to take a boat
+    at the jetty and get himself pulled off to her when the evening came. To
+    no ship. Perhaps never more. Before the sale was concluded, and till the
+    purchase-money had been paid, he had spent daily some time on board the
+    Fair Maid. The money had been paid this very morning, and now, all at
+    once, there was positively no ship that he could go on board of when he
+    liked; no ship that would need his presence in order to do her work--to
+    live. It seemed an incredible state of affairs, something too bizarre
+    to last. And the sea was full of craft of all sorts. There was that prau
+    lying so still swathed in her shroud of sewn palm-leaves--she too had
+    her indispensable man. They lived through each other, this Malay he had
+    never seen, and this high-sterned thing of no size that seemed to be
+    resting after a long journey. And of all the ships in sight, near and
+    far, each was provided with a man, the man without whom the finest ship
+    is a dead thing, a floating and purposeless log.</p>
+    <p>After his one glance at the roadstead he went on, since there was
+    nothing to turn back for, and the time must be got through somehow. The
+    avenues of big trees ran straight over the Esplanade, cutting each other
+    at diverse angles, columnar below and luxuriant above. The interlaced
+    boughs high up there seemed to slumber; not a leaf stirred overhead:
+    and the reedy cast-iron lampposts in the middle of the road, gilt like
+    scepters, diminished in a long perspective, with their globes of white
+    porcelain atop, resembling a barbarous decoration of ostriches' eggs
+    displayed in a row. The flaming sky kindled a tiny crimson spark upon
+    the glistening surface of each glassy shell.</p>
+    <p>With his chin sunk a little, his hands behind his back, and the end of
+    his stick marking the gravel with a faint wavering line at his heels,
+    Captain Whalley reflected that if a ship without a man was like a body
+    without a soul, a sailor without a ship was of not much more account
+    in this world than an aimless log adrift upon the sea. The log might be
+    sound enough by itself, tough of fiber, and hard to destroy--but what of
+    that! And a sudden sense of irremediable idleness weighted his feet like
+    a great fatigue.</p>
+    <p>A succession of open carriages came bowling along the newly opened
+    sea-road. You could see across the wide grass-plots the discs of
+    vibration made by the spokes. The bright domes of the parasols swayed
+    lightly outwards like full-blown blossoms on the rim of a vase; and
+    the quiet sheet of dark-blue water, crossed by a bar of purple, made a
+    background for the spinning wheels and the high action of the horses,
+    whilst the turbaned heads of the Indian servants elevated above the line
+    of the sea horizon glided rapidly on the paler blue of the sky. In an
+    open space near the little bridge each turn-out trotted smartly in a
+    wide curve away from the sunset; then pulling up sharp, entered the main
+    alley in a long slow-moving file with the great red stillness of the sky
+    at the back. The trunks of mighty trees stood all touched with red on
+    the same side, the air seemed aflame under the high foliage, the
+    very ground under the hoofs of the horses was red. The wheels turned
+    solemnly; one after another the sunshades drooped, folding their colors
+    like gorgeous flowers shutting their petals at the end of the day. In
+    the whole half-mile of human beings no voice uttered a distinct word,
+    only a faint thudding noise went on mingled with slight jingling sounds,
+    and the motionless heads and shoulders of men and women sitting in
+    couples emerged stolidly above the lowered hoods--as if wooden. But one
+    carriage and pair coming late did not join the line.</p>
+    <p>It fled along in a noiseless roll; but on entering the avenue one of the
+    dark bays snorted, arching his neck and shying against the steel-tipped
+    pole; a flake of foam fell from the bit upon the point of a satiny
+    shoulder, and the dusky face of the coachman leaned forward at once over
+    the hands taking a fresh grip of the reins. It was a long dark-green
+    landau, having a dignified and buoyant motion between the sharply
+    curved C-springs, and a sort of strictly official majesty in its supreme
+    elegance. It seemed more roomy than is usual, its horses seemed slightly
+    bigger, the appointments a shade more perfect, the servants perched
+    somewhat higher on the box. The dresses of three women--two young
+    and pretty, and one, handsome, large, of mature age--seemed to fill
+    completely the shallow body of the carriage. The fourth face was that
+    of a man, heavy lidded, distinguished and sallow, with a somber, thick,
+    iron-gray imperial and mustaches, which somehow had the air of solid
+    appendages. His Excellency--</p>
+    <p>The rapid motion of that one equipage made all the others appear utterly
+    inferior, blighted, and reduced to crawl painfully at a snail's pace.
+    The landau distanced the whole file in a sort of sustained rush; the
+    features of the occupant whirling out of sight left behind an impression
+    of fixed stares and impassive vacancy; and after it had vanished in full
+    flight as it were, notwithstanding the long line of vehicles hugging the
+    curb at a walk, the whole lofty vista of the avenue seemed to lie open
+    and emptied of life in the enlarged impression of an august solitude.</p>
+    <p>Captain Whalley had lifted his head to look, and his mind, disturbed in
+    its meditation, turned with wonder (as men's minds will do) to matters
+    of no importance. It struck him that it was to this port, where he had
+    just sold his last ship, that he had come with the very first he had
+    ever owned, and with his head full of a plan for opening a new trade
+    with a distant part of the Archipelago. The then governor had given
+    him no end of encouragement. No Excellency he--this Mr. Denham--this
+    governor with his jacket off; a man who tended night and day, so to
+    speak, the growing prosperity of the settlement with the self-forgetful
+    devotion of a nurse for a child she loves; a lone bachelor who lived as
+    in a camp with the few servants and his three dogs in what was called
+    then the Government Bungalow: a low-roofed structure on the half-cleared
+    slope of a hill, with a new flagstaff in front and a police orderly on
+    the veranda. He remembered toiling up that hill under a heavy sun for
+    his audience; the unfurnished aspect of the cool shaded room; the long
+    table covered at one end with piles of papers, and with two guns, a
+    brass telescope, a small bottle of oil with a feather stuck in the neck
+    at the other--and the flattering attention given to him by the man in
+    power. It was an undertaking full of risk he had come to expound, but a
+    twenty minutes' talk in the Government Bungalow on the hill had made it
+    go smoothly from the start. And as he was retiring Mr. Denham, already
+    seated before the papers, called out after him, "Next month the Dido
+    starts for a cruise that way, and I shall request her captain officially
+    to give you a look in and see how you get on." The Dido was one of the
+    smart frigates on the China station--and five-and-thirty years make a
+    big slice of time. Five-and-thirty years ago an enterprise like his had
+    for the colony enough importance to be looked after by a Queen's ship.
+    A big slice of time. Individuals were of some account then. Men like
+    himself; men, too, like poor Evans, for instance, with his red face,
+    his coal-black whiskers, and his restless eyes, who had set up the first
+    patent slip for repairing small ships, on the edge of the forest, in
+    a lonely bay three miles up the coast. Mr. Denham had encouraged that
+    enterprise too, and yet somehow poor Evans had ended by dying at
+    home deucedly hard up. His son, they said, was squeezing oil out of
+    cocoa-nuts for a living on some God-forsaken islet of the Indian Ocean;
+    but it was from that patent slip in a lonely wooded bay that had sprung
+    the workshops of the Consolidated Docks Company, with its three
+    graving basins carved out of solid rock, its wharves, its jetties,
+    its electric-light plant, its steam-power houses--with its gigantic
+    sheer-legs, fit to lift the heaviest weight ever carried afloat, and
+    whose head could be seen like the top of a queer white monument peeping
+    over bushy points of land and sandy promontories, as you approached the
+    New Harbor from the west.</p>
+    <p>There had been a time when men counted: there were not so many carriages
+    in the colony then, though Mr. Denham, he fancied, had a buggy. And
+    Captain Whalley seemed to be swept out of the great avenue by the swirl
+    of a mental backwash. He remembered muddy shores, a harbor without
+    quays, the one solitary wooden pier (but that was a public work) jutting
+    out crookedly, the first coal-sheds erected on Monkey Point, that caught
+    fire mysteriously and smoldered for days, so that amazed ships came
+    into a roadstead full of sulphurous smoke, and the sun hung blood-red
+    at midday. He remembered the things, the faces, and something more
+    besides--like the faint flavor of a cup quaffed to the bottom, like a
+    subtle sparkle of the air that was not to be found in the atmosphere of
+    to-day.</p>
+    <p>In this evocation, swift and full of detail like a flash of magnesium
+    light into the niches of a dark memorial hall, Captain Whalley
+    contemplated things once important, the efforts of small men, the growth
+    of a great place, but now robbed of all consequence by the greatness
+    of accomplished facts, by hopes greater still; and they gave him for a
+    moment such an almost physical grip upon time, such a comprehension of
+    our unchangeable feelings, that he stopped short, struck the ground with
+    his stick, and ejaculated mentally, "What the devil am I doing here!" He
+    seemed lost in a sort of surprise; but he heard his name called out in
+    wheezy tones once, twice--and turned on his heels slowly.</p>
+    <p>He beheld then, waddling towards him autocratically, a man of an
+    old-fashioned and gouty aspect, with hair as white as his own, but with
+    shaved, florid cheeks, wearing a necktie--almost a neckcloth--whose
+    stiff ends projected far beyond his chin; with round legs, round arms,
+    a round body, a round face--generally producing the effect of his short
+    figure having been distended by means of an air-pump as much as the
+    seams of his clothing would stand. This was the Master-Attendant of the
+    port. A master-attendant is a superior sort of harbor-master; a person,
+    out in the East, of some consequence in his sphere; a Government
+    official, a magistrate for the waters of the port, and possessed of vast
+    but ill-defined disciplinary authority over seamen of all classes.
+    This particular Master-Attendant was reported to consider it miserably
+    inadequate, on the ground that it did not include the power of life
+    and death. This was a jocular exaggeration. Captain Eliott was fairly
+    satisfied with his position, and nursed no inconsiderable sense of such
+    power as he had. His conceited and tyrannical disposition did not allow
+    him to let it dwindle in his hands for want of use. The uproarious,
+    choleric frankness of his comments on people's character and conduct
+    caused him to be feared at bottom; though in conversation many pretended
+    not to mind him in the least, others would only smile sourly at the
+    mention of his name, and there were even some who dared to pronounce him
+    "a meddlesome old ruffian." But for almost all of them one of Captain
+    Eliott's outbreaks was nearly as distasteful to face as a chance of
+    annihilation.</p>
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+          for (var i=0; i < headers.length; i++){
+            var rect = headers[i].getBoundingClientRect();
+            if (closestTop === undefined || (rect.top < 0 && rect.top > closestTop)){
+              closestTop = rect.top;
+              closest = headers[i];
+            }
+          }
+          return closest.innerHTML;
+        }
+        document.addEventListener('scroll', function(){
+          var percentage = Math.floor((100 * Math.max(0, pageYOffset)) / (document.body.scrollHeight - innerHeight)) + '%'
+          pointer.innerHTML = getSection() + ' - ' + percentage
+          pointer.classList.add('show');
+          if (hideTimeout)
+            clearTimeout(hideTimeout);
+          hideTimeout = setTimeout(function(){
+            pointer.classList.remove('show');
+          }, 1000);
+        });
+    </script>
+  </body>
+</html>