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At this juncture Skipper Sione to his cabin to fetch He handed one to Bony Sawyer, another to Red Sanders and a third to a man by the nao below and bring Byrne up Bring hi him"

No one made a move to enter the forecastle

"Go on now, ht he said 'we'," ree, turned to search out the offender from the several men behind him

"Who was that?" he roared "Show me the blitherin' swab Jes' show him to me, I tell you, an I'll learn hiain to the men he had ordered into the forecastle after Billy Byrne, "you cowardly landlubbers you, get below there quick afore I kick you below"

Still no one moved to obey hiain He fairly frothed at thethe o

"Why, Skipper," spoke up Bony Sawyer, "it's sure death for any oes below there It's easier, an' safer, to starve him out"

"Starve nothin'," shrieked Skipper Sioin' to sit quiet here for a week an' let any blanked wharf rat own that there fo'c's'le just because I got a lot o' white-livered cowards aboard? No sir! You're a-goin' down after that would-be bad man an' fetch hily toward the three who stood near the hatch, holding their fireare of Billy Byrne below

What would have happened had Skipper Si maneuver he had undertaken can never be known, for at this h the circle of edy

"What's up, sir?" he asked of Si that I can help you with?"

"Oh!" exclaimed the skipper; "so you ain't dead after all, eh? Well that don't change the looks of things a et that ot the guts to go in after hiun, sir," spoke up Wison, "an' Gawd knows he be the one as'ud on'y be too glad for the chanct to use it"