“I don’t,” answered Hunston, rudely. “I want to get at him, but he always slips through my fingers.”
“Yes. I guess he knows too much for you.”
Harry laughed scornfully as he spoke.
“Do you imagine the pirates will kill him?”
“Not if he buys himself off. Money talks in this country as well as in others.”
“We all want the circulating medium. May I ask how you came on board the Benares. This is the first time I have seen you.”
Harry told Hunston that he was picked up after the collision, and that Clara, Mole and Monday were also saved.
“I was told,” said Hunston, “that you and Harkaway had gone back to India.”
“Is that why you are bound the same way?”
“Surely. I shall never leave off tracing Young Jack as long as I have breath in my body.”