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Rh At once two of the sailors, a Swede and an American, came aft and touched their forelocks.

"Do you know what I'm—hic—going to do?" went on the captain, closing one eye suggestively. "I'm going to place both of you under arrest until we arrive at Manila."

"Arrest!" cried Dan and I simultaneously.

"You shall not arrest me," I added, and my companion said something very similar.

"I said—hic—arrest, and I mean it. Throw up your hands, both of you."

"I refuse to obey the order."

"Do you know that I am the—hic—commander of this ship?"

"You are when you are sober," returned Dan.

"I am sober now—I never get—hic—drunk. I place you under arrest. Yarson, Carden, conduct the two passengers to the—hic—brig and lock 'em in."

"Keep your hands off!" I exclaimed. "Don't you dare to touch me!"

"And don't you dare to touch me," added Dan.

We had scarcely spoken than Captain Kenny withdrew his right hand from his pocket and showed us the muzzle of a revolver.

"You'll—hic—obey or take the consequences," he hiccoughed. "I'm a peaceful man