Steel Kilt's Commandment to the Captain

Two traders were put down in the ship's run for salvation. Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest. The captain was just as willing to lower for a fish that moment as on the day his craft first struck the cruising ground. But though the lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart.