Dick noticed that a few of the others looked doubtful.
"I mean it, and I want you to leave right now," stormed Jack Lesher.
"I'll give you one minute in which to turn your boat around," and he pulled out his watch.
"Might as well go back," whispered old Jerry.

"You can't reason with a lot of half-drunken men." "Very well, we'll go back," said Captain Blossom loudly.

"But, remember, you haven't seen the end of this affair." "And remember another thing," added Dick, in an equally loud voice: "Don't any of you dare to come anywhere near our house.

If you do, you'll be sorry for it." Then the three turned the boat around and rowed slowly back whence they had come.
"The rascals!" muttered Captain Blossom, when they were out of hearing.
"Lesher and Baxter have poisoned the minds of the crew against me, and have bought over the men with liquor." "It's a mighty good thing ye put them stores in the cave," came from old Jerry.

"If ye hadn't we'd be a-wantin' a good many things in a few days." "That is true," answered Dick.