Sam Hall, however, insisted that this was what he wanted, and the crew consented to let him do his work.
"You've heard something, an' you've seen something," said Hovey at this juncture to Campbell; "but what you've seen and heard isn't nothin' to what'll happen to you unless you start handling the engines of the _Heron_.

Why, Campbell, I'm goin' to give you to the firemen!" "Hovey," answered the engineer calmly, "the only place I'd run this ship would be down to hell--your home port.

That's final!" The bos'n was white with rage.
"I'd like to tear your heart out an' feed it to the fish," he said, stepping close to Campbell, and then, remembering himself, he moved back and grinned: "But the men will find something better to do with you." He crossed the deck and held up a bucket of water toward Harrigan and McTee.

He raised a dipperful and allowed it to splash back in the bucket.
"Well ?" asked Hovey.
They merely stared at him as if they had not heard him speak.
"All right," said Hovey, quite unmoved, "there's plenty of time for you to make up your minds.

But if you wait too long--well, we'll come and get him.