19/22 Well, the old man is in his bunk asleep. And the other is sleeping down the hold there where we had to put him, for there is no room elsewhere." "Sleeping, you say? Will you not have twenty men up from the boat ?" Some such thought had passed through the officer's head, but the captain's remark put him upon his mettle. "Down this ladder, you say ?" "Yes, down the ladder and straight on. |