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what story are you talking about?
“Mr. Hands,” he said, “here are two of us with a brace of pistols each. If any one of you six make a signal of any description, that man's dead.”
Mr. Hands is kept at bay by Livesey's threats. This shows that the mutineers are cowardly individuals. They only seem courageous in big groups.
It “swung people to the idea of drinking recycled water”...
I just read this book... I will answer, but do you have answer choices?