"Of course there is."
"Why didn't you say so, then? I did not suppose the boat could go ahead while you were up here."
"I told you to ring the gong, didn't I?"
"What was the use of ringing it when you were in the pilot-house?"
"What was the use of ringing it when I did?" demanded Christy, who had but little patience with this kind of a sailor.
"You knew there was some one in the engine-room."
"But the engine would have started just the same if you had rung the gong."
"Well, I didn't know it; and if you had only said you had an engineer, I should have understood it."
"You will never make a sailor, as I said before," added Christy.
"What is the reason I won't?"