"We're waiting too long," Carver asserted dubiously. "We've been lucky so far; but luck will turn."
"We are getting the situation in hand better every day. They will strike soon, their patience is ebbing fast; and we will have the Prins with us in a week."
"The blow may fall before then."
"We must be prepared. It would be folly for us to strike now. We have no proof except this confession, and Van Slyck has powerful friends at home."
"That reminds me," Carver exclaimed. "Maybe these documents will interest you. They are the papers Jahi found on your jailers. They seem to be a set of accounts, but they're Dutch to me." He offered the papers to Peter Gross, who unfolded them and began to read.
"Are they worth anything?" Carver asked presently, as the resident carefully filed them in the same drawer in which he had placed Tsang Che's statement.
"They are Ah Sing's memoranda. They tell of the disposition of several cargoes of ships that have been reported lost recently. There are no names but symbols. It may prove valuable some day."
"What are your plans?"
"I don't know. I must talk with Koyala before I decide. She is coming this afternoon."
Peter Gross glanced out of doors at that moment and his face brightened. "Here she comes now," he said.