You have a chart , have n't you ? '' `` That 's as may be , '' replied the captain . `` Oh , well , you have , I know that , '' returned Long John . `` You need n't be so husky with a man ; there ai n't a particle of service in that , and you may lay to it . What I mean is , we want your chart . Now , I never meant you no harm , myself . '' `` That wo n't do with me , my man , '' interrupted the captain . `` We know exactly what you meant to do , and we do n't care , for now , you see , you ca n't do it . '' And the captain looked at him calmly and proceeded to fill a pipe . `` If Abe Gray -- '' Silver broke out . `` Avast there ! '' cried Mr. Smollett . `` Gray told me nothing , and I asked him nothing ; and what 's more , I would see you and him and this whole island blown clean out of the water into blazes first . So there 's my mind for you , my man , on that . '' This little whiff of temper seemed to cool Silver down . He had been growing nettled before , but now he pulled himself together . `` Like enough , '' said he . `` I would set no limits to what gentlemen might consider shipshape , or might not , as the case were . And seein ' as how you are about to take a pipe , cap'n , I 'll make so free as do likewise . '' And he filled a pipe and lighted it ; and the two men sat silently smoking for quite a while , now looking each other in the face , now stopping their tobacco , now leaning forward to spit .
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