Sheldon ironed them in pairs, and ran a steel chain through the links of the irons.

Gogoomy was given a lecture for his mutinous conduct and locked up for the afternoon.

Then Sheldon rewarded the plantation hands with an afternoon's holiday, and, when they had withdrawn from the compound, permitted the Port Adams men to descend from the trees.

And all afternoon he and Joan loafed in the cool of the veranda and watched them diving down and emptying their sunken canoes of the sand and rocks.

It was twilight when they embarked and paddled away with a few broken paddles.