"Yes, there is one in the cabin," answered Sid Jeffers. "What do you want of it?"
"We might put some dope in the drinking water. That will fix 'em."
"What, you wouldn't poison them!" cried Dan Baxter, and gave a little shiver.
"Oh, we'll only put them to sleep," answered Gasper Pold, but with a look on his face that Baxter did not like.
The men went to the cabin and the former bully of Putnam Hall followed. Here the medicine cabinet was found filled with various liquids and powders and Gasper Pold looked them over with care.
"I worked in a drug store when I was a young man," he explained. "And
I took a good bit of interest in dopes and poisons."
Dan Baxter heard him say this, and to the credit of the bully it made him shudder. He was no friend to the Rovers, yet he did not wish to see them lose their lives. He paused for a moment, then turned and ran on deck.
Nobody was in sight, for the sailors from the Dogstar were asleep below. He ran for a bucket, filled it with water and took it to the hatchway, which he opened feverishly.
"Hullo there!" he whispered.
"Baxter, is it you?" queried Dick, coming to the ladder.