You took the temptation in your hand--you looked it over--and then you turned away from it.
Well, and suppose the mutiny should actually come to the breaking point; they would be right in thinking I have means of fighting them.

I have no firearms on the ship; they know that.

They don't know that I have these." He went into the next room and returned carrying a heavy box.

This he placed on the desk and took a small, heavy ball of metal from it.
"A bomb ?" queried McTee.
"It is.

The moment a group gathers, one of these tossed among them will end the mutiny the moment it begins." McTee handed back the bomb in silence.