I have two days' rations owing to me.

Very well.

For the next two days I shall keep one dish to myself.

I shall see then what the Irishman or any one else thinks of it." The Irishman was confined to his hammock the whole week with wound-fever, and Salve had for the first time won the respect of the crew.

He felt at the same time that he had commenced a desperate struggle, and that if he was to enjoy any sort of security in this company of ruffians whom he had now set at defiance, he must take the game into his own hands, and make himself at least as much feared as the Irishman had been.