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CHAPTER XXVI
TURNING THE TABLES
"Be quiet, Baxter," said Dick, softly but firmly. "Don't you dare to make another sound."
"I—I thought you were—were—asleep," faltered the former bully of Putnam Hall. "That you"
"That he had drank the poisoned water, eh?"
"Ye—es."
"We did not. We took your advice and left it alone."
"Then when they brought you up out of the engine room"
"We were shamming, that's all. But I haven't got time to explain everything, Baxter. Where are the others?"
"On deck, or down in the engine room, I guess—all but the two beasts in there," and Baxter pointed to the overcome sailors.
"What brought you in here? Were you going to sleep?"
"Sleep! I—I couldn't sleep, Dick; honestly I couldn't!"
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