He wiped them angrily away with the back of his glove. "It's a crime!" he cried.
"Can't he be held off somehow? Who _is_ he? I want to know his name." Captain Elisha sadly shook his head.
"I'm afraid he can't, Stevie," he said.
"He's got a legal right to all 'Bije left, and more, too.
It may be he won't be too hard; perhaps he'll ...