"Go away from here!" she ordered. "Else I shall kill you!"
CHAPTER XIX
THE GOOD WORK GOES ON
"You will have to lower that pistol, young lady," warned Dave, calmly, as he walked toward her. The sailors had drawn back to either side of the doorway, but the young woman stood where she could aim at anyone in the American party.
The seaman nearest the revolver glanced quickly at Darrin, as if to inquire whether he should make an attempt to seize her pistol wrist and wrench the weapon away.
But Dave ignored the man's glance as he stepped up, eyeing the young woman coolly.
"Lower the pistol," he warned, again. "If you tried to use it, it would tell against you hard, before an English court, and these are wartimes, you know."
He was now within two feet of the weapon, which was pointed at his head.