The surgeon came off next time in an armed boat. With the men growling all around, they coolly lowered the grog into the steam launch.
When his back was turned, the skipper suddenly pulled out a revolver and began to shoot.
He was speedily secured and bound. Then they left him raving. For the time being the man was mad.
After returning to the Breezy the doctor reported what had happened. A bullet had cut the gunner on the shoulder, and so close had the revolver been fired, that part of the poor fellow's jacket was burned.
Breezy immediately gave orders that Goddard should be taken on board and placed in the cells. He died raving mad just three days after, and so that was the end of his story.
CHAPTER XXVI
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED
Of gold and precious stones the men of the Breezy had lifted quite two millions and two hundred thousand pounds' worth.
And the happy ship was homeward bound in earnest. Joy fore and aft. Ah, you landsmen, cannot easily understand the feeling in a sailor's heart; whose every footstep, as he walks the quarter-deck, seems to draw nearer and nearer to the bold bluff coast of Southern Britain.
Before they reached Rio de Janeiro, where Captain Breezy had orders to call and where letters for the crew were expected, Kep and Adolphus had a little private meeting and confab. They settled money matters between them, and then Keppel Drummond sought audience of the captain, asking permission for Adolph to come with him.