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But they could not understand what we were saying, or did not care to understand. "You break-a my net-a! You break-a my net-a!" the smaller man, the one with the earrings, screamed back, making furious gestures. "I fix-a you! You-a see, I fix-a you!" This time, when Paul thrust him back, he seized the oar in his hands, and his companion jumped aboard.
"Den I give-a heem my old-a net-a," one of them spoke up, promptly and maliciously, "I don't care," Charley answered. "I've got some old net myself he can have if he'll come around and ask for it." They all laughed at this, for they could afford to be sweet- tempered with a man so badly outwitted as Charley was. "Well, so long, lad," Charley called to me a moment later.
One of them, the smaller of the two, and if anything the more vicious-looking, put his hands on the rail of the Mist and started to come aboard. Quick as a flash Paul placed the end of the oar against the man's chest and shoved him back into his boat. He fell in a heap, but scrambled to his feet, waving the knife and shrieking: "You break-a my net-a! You break-a my net-a!"
"Den I give-a heem my old-a net-a," one of them spoke up, promptly and maliciously. "I don't care," Charley answered. "I've got some old net myself he can have if he'll come around and ask for it." They all laughed at this, for they could afford to be sweet-tempered with a man so badly outwitted as Charley was. "Well, so long, lad," Charley called to me a moment later.
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