"Why shouldn't I hurt him?
They potted Perry, didn't they?
What are we supposed to do! Lie around here and let them shoot us full of lead and just smile?
Why, you pig-headed, solid concrete--" But Wink's flow of eloquence was interrupted by two shots from the _Follow Me_.

There was a tinkling of glass as one of them smashed through the upper frame of the window on Steve's side.

The other ploughed into the chart-box.

Wink instantly fired back twice, aiming at the two ports he commanded.

"Harry's boat will look like a sieve," he chuckled as he broke his revolver and jammed fresh cartridges into it.
"Get busy there, Steve!" For answer Steve's revolver spoke twice and the thud of the bullets came to them.