The captain nodded. "It's them," he said.
"Well, here goes.
Now don't you show yourself." "Do you think I am afraid? Indeed, I shan't stay 'below' as you call it! I shall let them see--" Captain Cy held up his hand. "I'm commodore of this fleet," he said; "and that bein' the case, I expect my crew to obey orders.
There's nothin' you can do, and--Why, yes! there is, too.
You can take care of Bos'n.