You see we have run great risks already," I said, for now the time for the captain's departure had arrived, and it seemed a suitable occasion for bringing Jack to his senses.
"Well, who said it wouldn't be dangerous ?" he said sulkily.

"Gyp and me ain't no more afraid than you are." "Of course not," I said.
"'Tain't no more dangerous for me and a big dog than it is for you and your black fellow.

I don't want to come along with you, I tell you, if you don't want me." "My dear Jack," I said, "I should be glad of your company, only I'm horrified at the idea of your running risks for your own sake.

Suppose anything should happen to you, what then ?" Jack straightened up his long loppetty body, and looked himself all over in a curious depreciatory fashion, and then said in a half melancholy, half laughing manner: "Well, if something did happen, it wouldn't spoil me; and if I was killed nobody wouldn't care.

Anyhow I sha'n't go back with the captain." "Nonsense, my lad!" said the latter kindly.