He held up a warning palm, as though commanding silence, while he listened intently.
"Yes, it's the Delegates.

Now look at that crowd of seamen!" He swung his hand towards the bowels of the ship.

Scores of men were springing to their feet.

Presently there came a great shouting and cheers, and then four new faces appeared on deck.

They were faces of intelligence, but one of them had the enlightened look of leadership.
"By Judas, it's our leader, Richard Parker!" declared Ferens.
What Dyck now saw was good evidence of the progress of the agitation.
There were officers of the Ariadne to be seen, but they wisely took no notice of the breaches of regulation which followed the arrival of the Delegates.