And when Bill came and helped the captain hold me, I was crying like a baby, and deaf to all commands.

I struggled to get at Ace until they took him away; and then I collapsed and had a miserable time of it while my anger was cooling.
"I thought Ace would crowd the mourners too hard," said the captain.
"Now, Jake," said he, "will you behave ?" There was no need to ask me.

A baby could have held me then.
"Don't you know," said the captain, "that you ortn't to pound a feller with a horseshoe?
Do you always act like this when you fight ?" "I never had a fight before," I sobbed.
"Well, you won't have another with Ace," said the captain.

"You damned near killed him.

And next time fight fair!" That night I drove alone, which I had been doing now for some time, taking my regular trick; and when we tied up at some place west of Lockport, I went to my bunk expecting to find Ace ready to renew his tyrannies, and determined to resist to the death.