"I couldn't help hearing that last, sir."
"No, I suppose the whole ship heard that. Nice, isn't it?"
"I know what I'd do in your place, sir."
Devenish looked fiercely into the cunning, elderly face, with the dyed beard and the foxy eyes.
"I do, sir; but don't look at me like that, Captain Devenish, sir, or I shall never dare to tell you. There's something else I'd as lief tell you first; but how can I when you look like giving me a horse-whipping if I so much as open my mouth?"
"Go on, you old humbug," said Ralph, relaxing a little; "give me some brandy and water, and let's have it."
Jewson gave him the brandy and water first. Ralph took a gulp, and nodded for the news.
"Well, sir, you see what he give her; but do you know what she give him?" asked Jewson, in a vile undertone, half-gloating, half-afraid.
"No. What?"