“I am sure he would.”
“He would atop us at any cost.”
“If he could; but we were too quick for him, and he has not stopped us.”
“That’s what troubles me.”
“How troubles you? Why should that cause uneasiness?” said Dutch.
“Because he strikes me as being a man of such diabolical ingenuity that he would have found, if he had wished, some means of circumventing us before we started; and hence, as you know, I have carefully scanned every ship we neared, or steamer that passed us.”
“Yes, I know all that,” said Dutch, growing excited; “but we have been too much for him.”
“I fear not,” said Captain Studwick.
“Then you think we are in danger from him still?”
“I do, and that he would not stop at murder, or sinking the ship, to gain his ends.”