"I've nothing to do with her."
"Don't you run that engine?"
"I don't."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I will have nothing to do with the engine as things are now."
Ben raved and stormed at Ethan; then he tried to coax him to take his place; but the engineer was as firm as the pilot had been. Taylor offered him ten dollars if he would run the engine that day; but he positively refused. The new captain then went down to the fire-room, where the man in charge of the furnaces was promoted to the position of engineer.
"Now we can go it," said Ben.
"No; don't start her," said the sheriff.
"Why not?"
"I am responsible for the safety of this boat, and she shall not go with neither pilot nor engineer."