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Chapter 28. A-Hap For several days after leaving Nantucket,

nothing above hatches was seen of Captain A-Hap. The mates regularly relieved each other

at the watches. And for odd, they could be seen to the contrary. They seemed to be the

only commanders of the ship. Only, they sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden

and preemptory that after all it was plain that they but commanded vicariously. Yes, their

supreme lord and dictator was there, though hither too unseen by any eyes not permitted

to penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.

Every time I ascended to the deck for my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark

if any strange face were visible. For my first vague disquietude, touching the unknown

captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation. This was strangely

heightened at times by the ragged alias' diabolical incoherences, uninvitedly recurring to me,

with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.

But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile

at the solemn whims of calories of that outlandish profit of the warves.

But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or uneasiness to call it so, which I felt, yet whenever

I came to look about me in the ship, it seemed against all warranty to cherish such emotions.

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