Parratt

Nilsson, Foucault, and Parratt, proceeded to the Danish ship with a supply of whisky, made the ship-keeper royally drunk, and locked him up in an empty berth.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Having finished their work aloft, Foucault and Parratt who were both in the port watch, came down on deck, and then, it being their watch below, they went and turned in.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

The two men now separated for the first time, Parratt going aft to take his trick at the wheel, and Foucault being set to help in getting ready the ground tackle.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

He immediately turned and looked over his shoulder to see what Parratt was staring at.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Foucault and Parratt, and about the middle of the second dog-watch -- seven o'clock in the evening -- they were sitting on the deck working an eye-splice in the end of a large rope.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Parratt, very shortly after he had sold the pearl, fell down the hatch into the hold as the ship was unloading, and was very badly injured.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Parratt now ran down the iron ladder to show the way, and the mandarin followed; but when they reached the lower deck, and looked down the hatch into the black darkness of the lower hold, he seems to have taken fright, and begun to climb up again.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Suddenly Nilsson gave a husky shout, and rushed at Parratt, holding out the key of his chest.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

Parratt had already lighted a slush-lamp, by the glimmer of which they could see the mandarin swinging to and fro like a pendulum within a few feet of the ballast, and still quivering and twitching in his death-throes.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902