"I am sorry for you." "Really ?" queried Dan Baxter, giving the mate a sharp look.
"Yes, I am, and if I can do anything to make it easy for you, count on me," went on Jack Lesher.
"Thank you." "I suppose taking that money and the other things was more of boy's sport than anything, eh ?" "That's the truth.

I wanted to get square with those Rover boys.

They are my bitter enemies.

I didn't want the money." Just then old Jerry came in and the conversation came to an end.

But Baxter felt that he had a friend on board and this eased him a little.
He did not know that the reason Jack Lesher liked him was because the first mate was a criminal himself and had once served a term in a Michigan jail for knocking down a passenger on a boat and robbing him of his pocketbook.