"Oh, pshaw!" said the man, in disgust.
"Will you give us a bucket of fresh water or not?' asked Dick.
"Maybe—I'll see," said Todd, and dropped the hatch into place once more.
"I don't believe he'll give us a thing," was Sam's comment. "He knows if he doesn't we'll have to give up sooner or later."
"Of ve only had apout two dozen policemans here!" sighed the German youth.
In the meanwhile Sack Todd told the others about the water.
"Are you going to give it to them?" questioned Dan Baxter.
"Don't think I will," was the answer.
"You can't let them die of thirst," went on the former bully of Putnam
Hall, with some little show of feeling.
"I've got an idea," came from Gasper Pold. "Is there a medicine cabinet on board? Generally such a vessel carries one."