Never had the captain worn a front more menacing.

It was supposed by all that some misdeed had been discovered, and some surprising punishment was to be announced.
"See here, you!" he threw at them over his shoulder as he walked the deck, "Mr.Dodd here is going to offer a reward to the first man who strikes the opium in that wreck.

There's two ways of making a donkey go; both good, I guess: the one's kicks and the other's carrots.

Mr.Dodd's going to try the carrots.

Well, my sons,"-- and here he faced the men for the first time with his hands behind him--"if that opium's not found in five days, you can come to me for the kicks." He nodded to the present narrator, who took up the tale.