“But don’t you think there might be a chance of learning something by keeping watch?” Bob asked and then, realizing that the Captain might think he was criticising his action, he apologized.
“I didn’t mean to interfere,” he said.
“Interfere nothing, you know I’m always glad of a suggestion from you and this time I think you are right and I wrong. We ought not to overlook a single chance that might help.”
But, although he kept a man on watch until dark, nothing happened except that they learned that there were five men in the cabin.
“My, what a man that big fellow is,” Captain Jim said to Bob as he returned shortly before supper time from standing his watch. “What did you say his name is?”
“I don’t know his right name but they call him Big Tiny.”
“Big Tiny. What a contradiction of terms. But it’s just like some of these fellows up in this part of the world to give him a name like that.”
“Yes, a very fat man is pretty sure to be called ‘slim’ and a slim man ‘fatty’,” Bob agreed.
“I’d sure hate to run up against him in a rough and tumble. I’ll bet he could more than hold his own with three ordinary men,” and the Captain shook his head as he turned away.
“And, believe me, that fellow Pierre is no slouch,” Bob declared.