After considerable head scratching, he put the paper on Tempest's plate, the dinner table being set.
Then he stood outside the cabin to watch whether the letter reached its proper destination.
[CHAPTER XXXIII.]
THE MUTINY QUELLED.
Lieutenant Tempest saw the paper as soon as he entered the cabin, and was very much inclined to resent the placing of dirty paper on his dinner plate.
But when he saw Bob's signature, he became amused.
He was about to throw the document away, when Bob shouted from the outside:
"Read it, sir."