You have proved that to my satisfaction as well as yours.

But I warn you now, and not so much for your own good as for mine, that I shall shoot you the moment you attempt a hostile act.

I can shoot you now, as I stand here; and if you are so minded, just go ahead and try to clap on the hatch." "Nevertheless, I forbid you, I distinctly forbid your tampering with my ship." "But, man!" I expostulated, "you advance the fact that it is your ship as though it were a moral right.

You have never considered moral rights in your dealings with others.

You surely do not dream that I'll consider them in dealing with you ?" I had stepped underneath the open hatchway so that I could see him.