He helped him into his berth, and arranged him so that he could sleep it off, and he did not care if he did not do so before the next day.

He waited till he had dropped off into a deep slumber, and then joined Christy in the cabin.
"If I had not been a temperance man before, I should be now," said the lieutenant.

"It is just as well that the captain is clean over the bay, for we might have been obliged to shoot him if he had been sober." "But we could have taken possession of the vessel in spite of him, if the steamer had not interfered," replied Graines, as he led the way to the deck.

"I don't see that we have anything to do but wait for the moving of the waters, or for the moving of the steamer.

I suppose our men are all right forward." "I have no doubt of it, though I have not seen them lately.