"What are you waiting for, Mr.
Dawbin?
Why don't you obey my order ?" "The fellow wants to talk," replied the mate.
"If he won't get into the boat, pitch him into it like a dead dog!" Christy saw that it was useless to resist, though he had a revolver in his pocket which had not been taken from him, for he had not been searched.

The mate and two sailors stood in front of him, and he realized that he could accomplish nothing by resistance under present circumstances.

He thought he could do better in the boat after it was beyond the reach of any reinforcements from the steamer.

He went over the side, and took his place in the stern sheets.
The mate followed him, and the two men, one of whom was hardly more than a boy, took their places on the thwarts.

The boat was shoved off, and the prisoner had an immediate interest in the course it was about to steer.