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In this way I could
diagnose their temper and judge how far they were
informed upon the mystery of the FLYING SCUD. It
was after having thus overheard some almost mutinous
speeches that a fortunate idea crossed my mind. At
night I matured it in my bed, and the first thing the
next morning broached it to the captain.
"Suppose I spirit up the hands a bit," I asked, "by the
offer of a reward?"
"If you think you're getting your month's wages out of
them the way it is, I don't," was his reply. "However,
they are all the men you've got, and you're the
supercargo."
This, from a person of the captain's character, might
be regarded as complete adhesion; and the crew were
accordingly called aft. Never had the captain worn a
front more menacing. It was supposed by all that some
misdeed had been discovered, and some surprising
punishment was to be announced.
"See here, you!" he threw at them over his shoulder as
he walked the deck. "Mr. Dodd here is going to offer a
reward to the first man who strikes the opium in that
wreck.


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