“What schooner was that in the cove, Ben?”
“Where does she hail from?”
“I don’t know.”
“Are they fishermen?”
“No; thieves.”
“What did they come here for?”
“To see what they could get of me.”
“How many of them have you killed?”
“Well, I haven’t killed any of them outright; but there’s one of them never’ll do much more work, I reckon.”