He must give me reason.

I got plenty of reason.

But I want reason all hands can see.

I want him make me smash him, so that all hands say, 'Hurrah, Captain, you done right.' Then you get the job, Daughtry." Had Captain Jorgensen not been dilatory in his contemplated smashing, and had not Hanson delayed in giving sufficient provocation for a smashing, Michael would have accompanied Steward upon the schooner, _Howard_, and all Michael's subsequent experiences would have been totally different from what they were destined to be.

But destined they were, by chance and by combinations of chance events over which Michael had no control and of which he had no more awareness than had Steward himself.