"Will you tell us whether we are engaged in a lawful voyage?"
"I tell you that every man who behaves himself shall have a thousand dollars when the cruise is up, and have his grog three times a day, and plum duff every day."
"That is just the same as saying that it is not a lawful voyage," I added, in a low tone, to Sanderson.
"That's so, my hearty."
"Come out here, Phil Farringford!" shouted the mate. "You have made all this trouble."
"No, he didn't, sir," replied Jack Sanderson. "One's as black as another."
"Come out here, Phil! I'll teach you to get up a mutiny among the men."
The mate made a demonstration forward, as though he intended to drag me out from the midst of my companions. Probably he had seen, and perhaps heard, my communications with the spokesman, and his wrath against me was fanned into a blaze.
"Don't you go, Phil; we will stand by you," said Baxter.