"I'll give you--this!" answered Dora, and pushed the door shut in
his face. There happened to be a bolt on the inside and she quickly
shoved it into place.
"Just you wait--I'll get square on you!" growled Lew Flapp, from the
outside, and then they heard him stamp off, very much out of sorts.
Fortunately for the girls, the breakfast brought to them was quite
fair and there was plenty of it. They ate sparingly, resolved to save
what was left until later in the day.
"He may not bring us anything more," said Dora. "Perhaps I did wrong
to shut the door on his nose."
"You did just right, Dora," answered her cousin, promptly. "I think
he and Baxter are horrid!"
"But they have us in their power, and have some men to aid them, too!"
"I wonder who those men can be?"
"I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do
almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor."
Slowly the time went by. They tried to look out of the stateroom
window, but Dan Baxter had placed a bit of canvas outside in such a
position that they could see nothing.
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