But a murmur arose, eager, delighted: "Go on! Go on--tell us more!" "Absolute obedience to me is to be the first rule," continued the Master.

"The second is to be sobriety.

There shall be no drinking, carousing, or gambling.

This is not to be a vulgar, swashbuckling, privateering revel, but--" A slight disturbance at the door interrupted him.

He frowned, and rapped on the table, for silence.