"You're nabbed," said Captain Phipps, with brutal British slang, "and let me tell you that's better than being dead, which you would have been if you'd rejoined your boat."
I could not quite control my feelings.
"What has happened?" I cried.
"We've bagged the whole four—just at the very spot on the chart which you and I arranged!" chuckled the great brute.
(At this point Lieutenant von Belke's comments become a little too acid for publication, and it has been considered advisable that the narrative should be finished by the Editor.)