Running to the door. Plunging out on deck. Lean old person spluttering indignantly. Showing no intention of going back. Enraged captain running to a pile of broken bricks.
Heels pausing, in descending, to kick furiously backward.
Then Captain Brock remembered the boy. But the boy was not trying to escape. He'll have to do his fishing somewhere else, though. Tow starting up the river. But that was a tough old customer, and took on something fierce because I prevented him fishing.