"It wasn't your fault that they had the parts to replace those you took," Mr. Lakewood assured him.
"What I can't understand is why they want us to know that the gun is all right. You see, they were not shooting at us," Bob said.
"Some men can't help bragging and that's his way of doing it. You see he probably couldn't resist the temptation to let us know that you had failed," Mr. Lakewood explained.
"And I suppose he thinks that gun'll scare us," Jack added.
"There's the wireless," Bob said as Jack finished, "and I think it's our call."
"I'll go," Jack told him as he darted for the wireless room.
He was back in about ten minutes.
"It's that captain fellow," he announced.
"What's he want?" Captain Ole asked.
"He says that if we won't let him search the boat he's going to do it anyway and that he's got forty men on board to back him up."