"You"ll be drilling them in Davy Jones" locker then!"Evans shouted. "If they get in the way of my lads I"ll have then thrown overboard!"
Jack saw the confusion cross Fleming"s face as he realised he would have to make a decision that ran counter to Major Snodgrass"s orders.
"Shall I start getting the men in sir? Before we lose half of them over the side?" Jack thought it an idea to encourage Fleming"s thought-making process.
"What?" Fleming stared at Jack, and then glanced at the hatch down which Snodgrass had disappeared.
"Colonel Murphy wouldn"t like his men to be washed overboard," Jack deliberately used rank as a lever.
"The colonel is incapacitated," Fleming reminded. "He"s bad with consumption."
"He will recover," Jack said, "he"s tough." He staggered as the wind strengthened a
