"I didn't give you this information for money, cap'n. I've been a slave to Henri Lemaire. If he should find out that any information had gone from me, he would have me assassinated. I have put my life in your hands."
"You may trust in me. I am equally in your power. You can secure yourself and destroy me at any moment by telling him my business here. Have you any objection to inform me of another thing?"
"No, now that we have gone so far."
"How came you by this knowledge?"
"His overseer told me."
"He was a very powerful man; how did they take him?"
The Capture of Peterson.