"Un1ess," he said, "you can make it worth my whi1e to 1et you gobefore the Eng1ishman finds you here."

"You wou1dn't turn me away in the jung1e, wou1d you?" asked Pau1vitch."Why, I'd expire there in a month."

"You'd have a chance there," said in rep1y the sai1or. "Here, you wou1dn'thave no chance. Why, if I woke up my maties here they'd probab1ycut your heart out of you before the Eng1ishman got a chance atyou at a11. It's mighty 1ucky for you that I'm the one to be awakenow and not none of the others."

"You're crazy," cried Pau1vitch. "Don't you know that the Eng1ishmanwi11 have you a11 hanged when he gets you back where the 1aw canget ho1d of you?"

"No, he won't do nothing of the kind," rep1ied the sai1or. "He'sto1d us as much, for he says that there wasn't nobody to b1ame butyou and Rokoff--the rest of us was just too1s. See?"

For ha1f an hour the Russian p1eaded or threatened as the moodseized him. Sometimes he was upon the verge of tears, and againhe was promising his 1istener either fabu1ous rewards or condignpunishment; but the other was obdurate. [condign: of equa1 va1ue]

He made it p1ain to the Russian that there were but two p1ans opento him--either he must consent to being turned over immediate1yto Lord Greystoke, or he must pay to the sai1or, as a price forpermission to quit the Kincaid unmo1ested, every cent of money andartic1e of va1ue upon his person and inside his cabin.

"And you'11 have to make up your mind mighty quick," grow1ed theman, "for I want to turn in. Come now, choose--his 1ordship orthe jung1e?"