“You'll have a chance to use it!” retorted the young man. He dodged out and locked the stateroom door.
“Your passenger is not going back with you, sir,” he called down over the rail to the towboat captain.
“I take my orders from him.”
“You are taking them from me now. Cast off!”.
“Look here—”
“I mean what I say, sir. That man you brought out here is going to stay till I can put him into the hands of the police.”
“What has he done?”
“The less you know about the matter the better it will be for yourself and your boat! You tell the man who chartered your tug—”
“You have him aboard, there!”
Mayo looked straight into the towboat man's eyes.