The half-skipper took him by the slack of the breeches, and carried him
to the rail.
The sailors saw this, stopped them, and reported to the Captain, and he
ordered them both to be locked up downstairs, and that they should be
given rum and liquor and cold food, so that they might eat and drink
and carry out their wager; but hot studing with fire[39] was not to be
given to them because it might set fire to the spirits inside them.
And thus they were brought, in confinement, to Petrograd, and neither
had won the wager from the other; and there they were placed on
separate carts, and the Englishman was carried to the house of the
Ambassador, on the English Quay, while the left-handed man was taken to
the police station.
And from that time on their fates began to differ greatly.