So it's no go with you, and never was; you're out of the runnin', Dyvis.

But he won't be afryde of me, I'm such a little un! I'm unarmed--no kid about that--and I'll hold my 'ands up right enough.' He paused.

'If I can manage to sneak up nearer to him as we talk,' he resumed, 'you look out and back me up smart.

If I don't, we go aw'y again, and nothink to 'urt.

See ?' The captain's face was contorted by the frenzied effort to comprehend.
'No, I don't see,' he cried, 'I can't see.