"I had no opportunity. He had just strength to ask the question, and then died."
"He supposed it to be another," said Randall. "But it can't be helped, and we may as well leave this place, or we may incur suspicion. I don't know that I care much for the mistake. He was an ugly fellow."
"About the other?"
"If you will be on the wharf to-morrow morning, I will take care that the man is on deck. You could not fail to recognize him, but to avoid all mistake, I will go forward and speak to him."
"And am I to receive no more than twenty dollars for what I have already done?" asked the Brazilian, discontentedly.
"Did you take nothing from the corpse?"
The assassin had found considerable money, and the thought of this tended to appease him.
"You are welcome to that, whatever it is, and for the new enterprise you shall have as much as I promised in the first place. You see, therefore, that you will be a gainer by the mistake that has taken place, while I shall be out of pocket by it."
"You said you were but an agent."
"So I am, but this money will come from me."