"Swam for it."
"Hum! pretty fair for a broken collar-bone!" Marbury remarked.
"He is a dangerous man, sir."
"Naturally—otherwise he would not be a pirate chief."
"He must be taken!" protested the skipper. "We must catch him!"
"Yes—we, or some one else, must catch him—and, as he seems to have got away from the vicinity, it will probably be some one else," Parkington observed.
"So you likely will not retire on your reward, Jamison," Marbury observed; "another will get the thousand guineas.... Why did you not notify us, at once?"
"Because, I hoped to catch him, sir."
"And not be obliged to tell me he had escaped—I see."
"It is only human nature," said Parkington. "Let me intercede for Jamison."