Then: "I ought to have dropped the stern anchor over," he went on.

"What an idiot! If she had that to hold her from swinging broadside--" "Would it hold her ?" asked Joe dubiously.
"It would help." Steve tightened his belt.

"I'm going back," he said.
They remonstrated, but to no purpose.

Then Joe and Han wanted to go along, and were denied.

"It's no trick," said Steve resolutely.