He wanted to have you brought on board.

The captain said that as you had chosen to mix yourself up in a row on shore, you might die on shore for anything he cared.

Then I asked for leave to stay with you when the vessel sailed, and got sworn at for my pains.

In the afternoon I filled up your chest chockfull with as many of my things as I could get into it, and sent it ashore.

By the next night we had got all the cargo on board, and were to sail by the next morning, and I lowered myself down and swam ashore.
"Allen had told me exactly where you were lying, so I came here at once and told Dave who I was, and why I had come ashore, and as soon as it was light he took me round to the room the other two had.