No shipping masters or beach-combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.

Who's to pull or steer or sail ship if he loses yer?
It's me and Johnson have to face the music.
Get into yer bunks, now, and shut yer faces; I want to get some sleep." "That's all right all right," Parsons spoke up.

"Mebbe he won't do for us, but mark my words, hell 'll be an ice-box to this ship from now on." All the while I had been apprehensive concerning my own predicament.
What would happen to me when these men discovered my presence?
I could never fight my way out as Wolf Larsen had done.

And at this moment Latimer called down the scuttles: "Hump! The old man wants you!" "He ain't down here!" Parsons called back.
"Yes, he is," I said, sliding out of the bunk and striving my hardest to keep my voice steady and bold.
The sailors looked at me in consternation.

Fear was strong in their faces, and the devilishness which comes of fear.
"I'm coming!" I shouted up to Latimer.
"No you don't!" Kelly cried, stepping between me and the ladder, his right hand shaped into a veritable strangler's clutch.