"Are you armed, Mr. Divine?" he asked.
Divine nodded affirmatively.
"Then you'd better come over with us--it looks like we
might need you to help put down this mutiny," said Ward.
Divine hesitated. He did not know which side was more
likely to be victorious, and he wanted to be sure to be on the
winning side. Suddenly an inspiration came to him.
"This is purely a matter to be settled by the ship's officers,"
he said. "I am only a prisoner, call me a passenger if you
like--I have no interest whatever in the matter, and shall
not take sides."
"Yes you will," said Mr. Ward, in a low, but menacing
tone. "You're in too deep to try to ditch us now. If you don't
stand by us we'll treat you as one of the mutineers when we're
through with them, and you can come pretty near a-guessin'
what they'll get."
Divine was about to reply, and the nature of his answer
was suggested by the fact that he had already taken a few
steps in the direction of Simms' faction, when he was stopped
by the low voice of the girl behind him.
"Larry," she said, "I know all--your entire connection with
this plot. If you have a spark of honor or manhood left you
will do what little you can to retrieve the terrible wrong you
have done me, and my father.
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