“I don’t understand.”
Peaks conducted Olaf to the quarter-deck, where Mr. Lowington was conversing with Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, who had come on board to visit their old friends.
“This is the man that claims Ole,” said the boatswain.
“I want the boy, sir,” added Captain Olaf, bowing as gracefully as he knew how.
“If Ole chooses to go with you, he may go,” replied the principal.
“He does not choose to go.”
“I certainly shall not compel him to go,” continued Mr. Lowington.
“I will make him go.”
“I shall allow no violence on board of this ship.”
“But he is my boy; the son of my wife that is dead.”