You can put in the morning, asking why I do it." I sheered off to another part of the vessel as fast as civility permitted.

This was not at all the talk that I desired, nor was the train of reflection which it started anyway welcome.

Here I was, running some hazard of my life, and perilling the lives of seven others; exactly for what end, I was now at liberty to ask myself.

For a very large amount of a very deadly poison, was the obvious answer; and I thought if all tales were true, and I were soon to be subjected to cross-examination at the bar of Eternal Justice, it was one which would not increase my popularity with the court.

"Well, never mind, Jim," thought I."I'm doing it for you." Before eleven, a third reef was taken in the mainsail; and Johnson filled the cabin with a storm-sail of No.