"What do you want me to do?" Darrin demanded.
"You send your men to your ship back," declared the big fellow. "Den your ship it must out of sight go yet. Ve shall sail back vonce. If your ship, or any udder ship to stop us try, den you die shall already—on deck, in sight your friends of."
"You big chump!" uttered Darrin.
"Vy you call me dot?"
"Because, no matter what you do or don't do to me, you are going to be taken and punished. Do you think my ship would sail without me?"
"Maybe, sooner dan see you killed vonce," glowered the skipper of the "Olga."
"You idiot, my subordinates, their suspicions aroused, are bound to take this craft, no matter what happens to me. They must do their duty without consideration for my safety."
"So?" uttered the skipper, looking at Dave dully.
"So!" Darrin assured him.
"But den you die must vonce."