“Right,” said Murray eagerly. “Well, what do you say now?”
“That I should like to point out their peculiarities to the skipper and old Anderson, and tell them what we think. Go and ask them to come and look.”
“I have already done so to Anderson.”
“But you ought to do it to the skipper as well. Look here, go at once and fetch him here to look.”
“While the American is with him? Thank you; I’d rather not.”
“Do you mean that?”
“To be sure I do. What would he say to me?”
“Oh, he’d cut up rough, of course; but you wouldn’t mind that in the cause of duty.”
Murray laughed softly.
“Why, Dick, I can almost hear what he would say about my impudence to attempt to teach him his duty. No, thank you, my dear boy; if he and Anderson think it right to trust the American, why, it must be right. If you feel that the nature of these fellows ought to be pointed out, why, you go and do it.”