"Go ahead, you're the boss." Higgins retired to the starboard rail, but he did not sheath Old Betsy.
"Can you tell me the reason you are afraid to go on?" asked Roger.
"Ain't afraid to go there. It's you that stops us."
"Why can't you take us there?"
"Got orders not to."
"From whom?"
A sullen silence followed the question.
"Anybody connected with the Land Company?"
"Save your wind," growled the scarred man. "We ain't telling."
Roger debated a moment and decided that he had indulged in enough irregularity and violence for one day.