He recognized her, and ran and caught her and swung her around before him and besought her to keep Mauger and his knife away.

Silva had a knife; and Mauger had felt it, on the deck above.

Mauger, the one-eyed man, had an increasing hold on the imagination of Noll Wing.

Dan'l Tobey knew how to handle Mauger; and he kept the little man in a continual ferment of helpless anger.