Then the weapon was taken from him.
"So you are still on board, eh ?" roared Captain Barforth, when he confronted the man.

"What have you to say for yourself ?" "I--er--I haven't done anything wrong," was Wingate's stubborn reply.
"Oh, no, of course not!" "He came at me in my sleep," cried Bahama Bill.

"He had something in a little white paper and he was trying to put it into my mouth when I woke up an' caught him.

I think he was going to poison me!" And he leaped forward and caught the prisoner by the throat.
"Le--let up!" gasped the deck hand.

"It--it's all a mis-- mistake! I wasn't going to poi--poison anybody." "Maybe he vos poison does sandwiches, doo," suggested Hans.