He next ordered Miss Brewster below, and smiled at the instant horror that leapt into her eyes.
"You'll find nothing gruesome down there," he said, "only an unhurt man securely made fast to the ring-bolts.

Bullets are liable to come aboard, and I don't want you killed, you know." Even as he spoke, a bullet was deflected by a brass-capped spoke of the wheel between his hands and screeched off through the air to windward.
"You see," he said to her; and then to me, "Mr.Van Weyden, will you take the wheel ?" Maud Brewster had stepped inside the companion-way so that only her head was exposed.

Wolf Larsen had procured a rifle and was throwing a cartridge into the barrel.

I begged her with my eyes to go below, but she smiled and said: "We may be feeble land-creatures without legs, but we can show Captain Larsen that we are at least as brave as he." He gave her a quick look of admiration.
"I like you a hundred per cent.

better for that," he said.