The theft of the _Flibberty-Gibbet_ was merely amusing, though the means by which the theft had been effected gave him hurt.

Yet he found consolation in the fact that the task of making Oleson drunk had been turned over to the three scoundrels.

And next, and swiftly, came the vision of her, alone with those same three scoundrels, on the _Emily_, sailing out to sea from Guvutu in the twilight with darkness coming on.

Then came visions of Adamu Adam and Noa Noah and all her brawny Tahitian following, and his anxiety faded away, being replaced by irritation that she should have been capable of such wildness of conduct.
And the irritation was still on him as he got up and went inside to stare at the hook on the wall and to wish that her Stetson hat and revolver- belt were hanging from it..