I would rather have heard from Peabody, Dickson, and Fearwell.

You don't know anything about them ?" "No," said Dan Baxter.
"This news about Dick and old Jerry worries me," said Tom.
"Dan Baxter, I think you know more than you care to tell," said Sam boldly.
The bully hardly knew how to reply.

He could not now fall back on Jack Lesher for support, and he had thought to be on his way to rejoin the sailors ere this.

The storm had upset all of his calculations.
It had been a foolish movement to attack Dick and old Jerry, and it now looked as if he must suffer for it.
"Well--er--I don't mind telling you that Dick and the mate had something of a quarrel," he said hesitatingly.
"How did it end ?" asked Tom.
"I can't say exactly." "Why not?
You were with Lesher at the time." "No, I wasn't.

He ordered me to get into the rowboat and wait for him while he went back to get a pistol or a gun.