"He snubbed me, told me I knew the rule, and was as overbearing as though I had been his servant, instead of an officer of the ship."
"But what did you do? He wouldn't have done anything of the kind if you hadn't given him some provocation."
"I told the quartermaster, when the wind was heading off the ship, to alter the course."
"Didn't you tell the captain beforehand?"
"Not I."
"Then I don't blame him for snubbing you. What's the use of being captain if the officers don't obey you?"
"If he had anything to say to me, he might have been a little more gentle about it."
Pelham neglected to say that he was not particularly gentle himself.
"Put that light out, Pelham, for my sake, if not for your own," said Goodwin, when he found that his companion was too much out of sorts to be reasonable.
"Neither for yours nor my own will I put it out," replied Pelham, as he took a cigar from its hiding-place, under the lower berth.