"What do you mean?"
"I mean that that paper's a fake."
"On what do you base your charge?" the other demanded.
"Are you so ignorant that you don't know that no paper of that kind is legal unless it bears the seal of the government?" he said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"It—it must have been an oversight."
"Perhaps it was, but that makes no difference. The paper is worthless and I refuse to recognize it."
"Perhaps you will recognize something else."
"That depends on what it is, but let me warn you that we are well armed and won't stand for any funny business," Captain Ole said sternly, looking him squarely in the eye.
With a nod at his companion the man turned without another word and left the ship.
"I wonder if they know their gun's out of commission," Bob said as soon as they were off the boat.