Clara rises from the table, and feeling lost and humiliated runs straight to an outside balcony.He follows behind and asks the weeping woman for a dance - and then comforts her as she collapses onto his chest.Lige upstaged him and stated his own romantic interests: "Are ye, indeed, Mr.Sourdough? Wal, so am I!" Sourdough drew his long-barreled revolver and proposed another shooting contest to decide who would be the lucky suitor.He pushed her further onto the spikes, as she gurgled and choked o death before his eyes.She muttered her final words to him: "You can""t have the baby, Michael," before he activated the thresher""s controls, causing the thresher to rip Jamie""s insides apart(# 3 death).Before they set sail in their third voyage together, Bligh ordered a flogging of a dead man, to punish the infraction to the letter of the law.