"No, I didn't clean it out."
"Yer didn't? And why in hell didn't yer?"
"Because I don't have to. But I put a couple of men to work and saw that they cleaned it out. And it was done before you were out of your warm bunk this morning."
"Who's that big fellow?" The passenger put the question to the captain.
"That's my bosun—and a good one."
"And the other? Know anything of him?"
"The singing one? Nothin', except he's the new pump-man. And I can see right now it won't be many hours afore the bosun'll beat his head off."
"You think he will?"
"I know he will. Why, look at him—the size of him, and solid's a rock."