But I am master, don't you forget that!" He began to eat leisurely, while Dan Baxter began to bolt his food.
In the meantime the sky grew darker and the flashes of lightning more vivid.

The girls were greatly frightened, and huddled together, while tears stood on Grace's cheeks.
"Oh, if only somebody was with us," sighed Nellie.
By the time Lesher and Baxter had finished eating the storm was on them in all of its violence.

The wind shrieked and tore through the jungle behind them, and often they could hear some tall tree go down with a crash.
"This will tear our flag of distress to shreds," said Nellie.

"And just when we need it so much, too!" "I am thinking of the future as well as the present," said Dora.
"What a rough time there will be if Lesher brings those other sailors here.

Some of them were heavy drinkers like himself, and only two or three were Americans." The storm had whipped the waters of the bay into a fury, and the rain was so thick that to see even the island on which the wreck rested was impossible.
"Dick can't come now," said Dora.