What ?" They exchanged glances of wonder at this shrewd interpretation.
"There is danger," said McTee at length, "and it's a danger which is something more than the mutiny, perhaps." "I will tell it," said Harrigan.
He drew his chair closer to Kate and leaned over so that his face was near hers.

She knew at once that he had forgotten all about the presence of McTee.
"Kate, I will not lie to ye, colleen"-- here McTee set his teeth, but Harrigan went on--"I hate McTee, and it's for your sake that I hate him.

And it's for your sake that I'm goin' to forget it for a while.
There's throuble abroad--there's a cloud over this ship an' a curse on it--" "What he means to say," broke in McTee, and then he became aware that she had not heard him speak, and he saw her smiling as she drank in the musical brogue of the Irishman.
"A curse on it, acushla, an' a promise av death that only two shtrong men can save you from--an' McTee is shtrong--so I've put away desire av killin' him till we get you safe an' sound to the shore, colleen, acushla; but ye must trust in us, an' follow us as ye love your life an' as I love ye!" She straightened in her chair and turned her eyes toward McTee.
"And you cannot tell me what the danger is ?" "We cannot," he answered, "but you must pay no attention to anything that happens or to anything that is said to you by others.

There are only two men on the _Heron_ whom you can trust--and here we are.

But there may be wild happenings on the _Heron_.