22/23 You gave him some mighty hard kicks. He only defended himself." "He's some defender," Captain Duncan grinned, with a hint of the return of his ordinary geniality, at the same time tenderly pressing his bleeding shoulder and looking woefully down at his tattered duck trousers. If you can make him friends with me in five minutes, he stays on board. But you'll have to make it up to me with a new pair of trousers." "And gladly, sir, thank you, sir," Daughtry cried. |