Then they said they would send a guard to bring him.
"No, sir, I prefer to fetch him myself--he don't get out of my hands.
Besides, I've got to go to the ship to get a rope, anyway." The court assembled with due ceremony, empaneled a jury, and presently Capt.

Ned entered, leading the prisoner with one hand and carrying a Bible and a rope in the other.

He seated himself by the side of his captive and told the court to "up anchor and make sail." Then he turned a searching eye on the jury, and detected Noakes's friends, the two bullies.
He strode over and said to them confidentially: "You're here to interfere, you see.

Now you vote right, do you hear ?--or else there'll be a double-barreled inquest here when this trial's off, and your remainders will go home in a couple of baskets." The caution was not without fruit.

The jury was a unit--the verdict.
"Guilty." Capt.