“Snow? Yes! No! The weather was warm. What did Pym say? Pym must be believed.” He lowered his voice and continued: “But Pym will tell you all that, sir. He knows. I do not know. He saw, and you will believe him.”
“Yes, Dirk Peters, I shall believe him.”
“We are to go in search of him, are we not?”
“I hope so.”
“After we shall have found William Guy and the sailors of the Jane?”
“Yes, after.”
“And even if we do not find them?”
“Yes, even in that case. I think I shall induce our captain. I think he will not refuse—”
“No, he will not refuse to bring help to a man—a man like him!”
“And yet,” I said, “if William Guy and his people are living, can we admit that Arthur Pym—”