griggs looked uneasy and ashamed , and muttered when laurence looked at him : `` which we were promised no work , sir , '' he said , `` and a lot of gold , and women ; but then i was thinking about my old mum and how she would manage , so- '' `` well , mr. griggs , '' laurence said grimly , `` i will not count you a deserter as you have thought better of it before we have left port , as it were ; but you will not stir out of camp another instant while we are here .