"We can hang weights to him."
"Where is the servant?"
"The fat fellow? He is saying his prayers with the fish."
"Are you two men the enemies of this spy?" asked René.
"To the death," replied Giacinto, gagging his enemy with a pocket handkerchief.
"Mine also. He has robbed me like a dog. I must leave Dover tonight for this deed."
"Do you promise to maintain absolute secrecy concerning what occurs aboard the Polipheme tonight?"
"I give you a gentleman's word," replied René.
The three men lifted the never so helpless, but still lucky, Volpetti down the stairway aboard the sloop in waiting.