"Not exactly, still I'll own I'd rather some of t'others had been saved and you have gone instead."
"Blast you for an unmannerly old dog," shouted Brand; "I've half a mind to give you a taste of a rope's end. Just remember you are under my orders, now, as you were aboard ship."
"I differ with ye there," answered outspoken Turk; "so much in fact, that if you should try to rope's end me, I should have to keel haul you."
And Turk, as he spoke, showed a formidable looking fist, hairy and covered with protuberances like those one see on the knots of an oak.
Brand's eye flashed fire, and he made a step forward.
Then he controlled himself, muttering something in an inaudible voice.
Meanwhile, the eyes of Mary were turned upon the intruder with a mingled expression of fear and dislike.
There was evidently in those eyes some startling resemblance which made the captain feel very uneasy, for he half turned his head, while a ghastly hue overspread his face.
"So," said Harry, breaking the awkward silence, "we did not reach our destination, the volcanic isle, after all."