Kaps.
[Shrugging his shoulders.] All tales on your part for a glass of gin!
Simon.
You lie. You was there, and the Miss was there. I says, “The ship is rotten, that caulking was damn useless. That a floating coffin like that”——
Kaps.
Good! that’s what you said. I don’t deny it. What of it? Are you so clever that when you’re half drunk——
Simon.
[Angry.] That’s a damned lie!
Kaps.
Not drunk then, are you such an authority, you a shipmaster’s assistant, that when you say “no,” and the owner and the Insurance Company say “yes,” my employer must put his ship in the dry docks?