“He says the schooner’s lost.”
“Lost!”
“Yes.”
“Did he say so himself?”
“He said the schooner was ‘a gone sucker.’ Those were his own words.”
“And didn’t he try to do anything?”
“No.”
“What—didn’t even try?”
“No.”
“Wal, I declare! I never did think that Corbet had much brains; but this beats everything. To go and let his schooner go to destruction in this way, and not even try to save her, is a little beyond what I expected even of him. But how did it happen?”