Vaire good boy." "Good boy or not, he 's got to keep his tongue atween his teeth," growled the second newcomer, who had not yet spoken, glaring fiercely at Joe.
"I say," queried the other man, "'ow does 'e whack up on the loot?
I 'ope as me and Bill 'ave a square deal." "Ze _Dazzler_ she take one share--what you call--one third; den we split ze rest in five shares.

Five men, five shares.

Vaire good." French Pete insisted in excited gibberish that the _Dazzler_ had the right to have three men in its crew, and appealed to 'Frisco Kid to bear him out.

But the latter left them to fight it over by themselves, and proceeded to make hot coffee.
It was all Greek to Joe, except he knew that he was in some way the cause of the quarrel.

In the end French Pete had his way, and the newcomers gave in after much grumbling.