Beginning to feel scarred about him." "What's that ?" said the lieutenant, who had come back from abaft unheard.

"Scared about whom ?" "Beg pardon, didn't mean nowt, sir," said the sailor touching his forelock.
"Yes, you did, sir.

Now look here," cried the lieutenant, shaking his glass at the man, "don't you try to deceive me.

You meant that you were getting uneasy about Mr Raystoke's prolonged absence." "Yes sir, that's it," said Dick eagerly.
"Then how dare you have the effrontery to tell me that you did not mean `nowt' as you have the confounded north country insolence to call it?
For two pins, sir,--women's pins, sir, not belaying pins,--I'd have you put ashore, with orders not to show your dirty face again till you had found Mr Raystoke." Dirty Dick passed his hand over his face carefully, and then looked at the palm to see if any of the swarthy tan had come off.
"Do you hear me, sir ?" cried the lieutenant.
"Yes, sir," said the man humbly.

"Shall I go at once sir ?" "No.