Geert.
When he came into the hold after the dog watch, I hammered him on the jaw with a marlin spike. Five minutes later I sat in irons. Kept in them six days—[Sarcastically.] the provost was full; then two weeks provost; six months solitary; and suspended from the navy for ten years; that, damn me, is the most—I’d chop off my two hands to get back in; to be nigger-driven again; cursed as a beggar again; ruled as a slave again——
Kneir.
Geert—Geert—Don’t speak such words. In the Bible it stands written——
Geert.
[Grimly.] Stands written—If there was only something written for us——
Kneir.
Shame on you——
Jo.
Well, wasn’t he in the right?