“And I went down and had a look at the bull and I thought ‘This ’ere creature will be a friend to me. They won’t come looking for me, not down with this old Astounder.’ But they did come looking for me, and a policeman come and they come with the captain and he says, ‘Who’ve we got here,’ he says.
“ ‘Oh, that’s the prize bull and his keeper,’ they says, ‘what you read about in the papers.’
“ ‘Well,’ I thought, ‘now I’m safe. There won’t be any more policemen come along for me.’ Then the steward come down. He calls me, ‘Crust, Crust. Where’s this man, Crust?’ he says. It make my blood run cold to hear my name called like that. So he says, ‘Come along and get your tea, man. Get your tea while you can eat it. We shall be gone in another hour and you’d best have something to be sick on, if you’re going to be sick.’
“Well, I sat down to supper with a lot of others, and be darned if one of them didn’t say, ‘Your name Crust? You any relation of the murderer?’
“ ‘No,’ I said, ‘thank God.’
“And another said, ‘What murderer’s that, Bert?’
“ ‘Why,’ he says, ‘a man called Crust shot a gamekeeper and there’s fifty pounds reward for him.’
“So then I saw that they suspected me and I said, ‘There’s only one way to deal with murderers and it’s what they call the old way. They used to get a great big tin of paraffin and they put the murderer into that and then they boil him. Wherever that’s been tried,’ I said, ‘people know enough not to do any more, because they know what they’ll get.’
“And then one of them said, ‘Yes, but they’re not always caught. They know that.’
“And I said, ‘No, they’re not always caught at once, but in the end they’re always caught.’