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Updated: June 30, 2025
"Up there, among the rocks and bushes." "Let's go after 'em!" "Shoot 'em down, boys! They deserve it for burning up the ship!" Up the rocks came the hard-drunken sailors, accompanied by Lesher, and with Dan Baxter in their rear. "Back! back! All of you, stand back!" cried Captain Blossom. "Come a step nearer at your peril. We are all armed and ready to fire!"
Rather reluctantly the mate turned back to the shore and he and Baxter left the boat. Then the girls prepared breakfast with all haste. Lesher ate but little, but eagerly tossed off the glass of liquor Dick allowed him. "Give me one more," he pleaded, but Dick was firm, and the mate stalked away muttering under his breath.
"Do you think they will really come here I mean all of the sailors?" "More than likely." The girls continued their work, and for the time being Dan Baxter kept his distance. Jack Lesher continued to snore away in the hammock, nor did he rouse up when Dick and old Jerry returned. "Dan Baxter!" cried Dick, as he leaped from the rowboat. "Where did you come from?"
Then they made up a bundle of things they said the other sailors needed. When arming themselves, the Rovers and Captain Blossom had placed all of the remaining firearms in a stateroom and locked the door. "What did you do with all of the guns and pistols?" asked Lesher presently, after looking in vain for them. "They are packed away in a stateroom.
"Sorry, cap'n, but I can't let you come aboard," answered the sailor, with something of a hiccough. "Can't let me come aboard?" repeated the captain. "Why not?" "Cause it's ag'in orders." "Whose orders?" "Captain Lesher's." "Captain Lesher!" ejaculated Captain Blossom indignantly. "How long has he been a captain?" "We made him cap'n yesterday." "That's right," put in another sailor.
"We'll have to watch them closely." "I agree with you. Now we have two kinds of enemies beasts and men," and the captain laughed bitterly. The others were gathered on the shore awaiting their return, and they listened attentively to what was told them. "Oh, Lesher wanted to be leader, you could see that right off," declared Tom.
"Lesher also said that you were angry at us for leaving the ship before the rest, and that you had said you would have us all tried for mutiny the first chance you got. Baxter said the same, and also told us that you were going to dump all the rum and other liquor into the ocean, so that the mate and none of the others could get a drop of it while they stayed on the islands."
"That's the stuff!" cried the mate, with a sly wink at Dora. "Better than eatin, twice over," and he took another drink. The manner of the two newcomers was not at all pleasing to the girls, and they were sorry that none of the men folks were at hand. They asked the pair to tell their story, and Baxter spoke up, while Lesher applied himself to the bottle.
"Oh!" came from Baxter. "Have you killed him?" "No; only knocked the senses out of him," answered Lesher, bending over his victim. "What did you do it for?" "To teach him a lesson. He shan't boss me, Baxter. Come, help me put him in the brig, and be quick, before Jerry comes back."
But he was afraid to take a train to some other town, and so remained in the boarding house for nearly a week, under the assumed name of Robert Brown. At the end of the fifth day Dan Baxter became acquainted with a seafaring man named Jack Lesher. Lesher was a rough fellow, who had sailed to many ports on the Pacific Ocean.
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