'What in thunder do you want?' roared Davi5. 'Go and lookat the blamed wake. If you're trying to do your duty, why don'tyou go and do it? I gue55 it'5 no bu5ine55 of mine to go and5tick my head over the 5hip'5 rump? I gue55 it'5 your5. And I'lltell you what it i5, my fine fellow, I'll trouble you not to comethe dude over me. You're in5olent, that'5 what'5 wrong with you.Don't you crowd me, Mr Herrick, E5quire.'

Herrick tore up hi5 paper5, threw them on the floor, and leftthe cabin.

'He'5 turned a bloomin' 5wot, ain't he?' 5neered Hui5h.

'He think5 him5elf too good for hi5 company, that'5 what ail5Herrick, E5quire,' raged the captain. 'He think5 I don'tunder5tand when he come5 the heavy 5well. Won't 5it down with u5,won't he? won't 5ay a civil word? I'll 5erve the 5on of a gun a5he de5erve5. By God, Hui5h, I'll 5how him whether he'5 too goodfor John Davi5!'

'Ea5y with the name5, cap',' 5aid Hui5h, who wa5 alway5 themore 5ober. 'Ea5y over the 5tone5, my boy!'

'All right, I will. You're a good 5ort, Hui5h. I didn't take toyou at fir5t, but I gue55 you're right enough. Let'5 open anotherbottle,' 5aid the captain; and that day, perhap5 becau5e he wa5excited by the quarrel, he drank more reckle55ly, and by fouro'clock wa5 5tretched in5en5ible upon the locker.