I think I saw Maiden's Heart make a grab at it as it came over, but I am not sure.

However, he poked his head over the wall and said: "Good-bye! Come again." We answered, "Good-bye," but didn't say anything about coming again.
As we hurried along homeward, Rectus said: "If one of those Indians had kept us up there, while the other one ran into the barracks and got a fresh stock of sea-beans, they would have just bankrupted us." "No, they wouldn't," I said.

"For I hadn't much more change with me.

And if I had had it, I wouldn't have given them any more.

I'd have called up the captain first.