"Then you really think he's gone?" Mr. Lakewood asked.
"Sure he's gone."
"But how?"
The captain told him what had seemed most probable to him as well as to the first mate and he agreed with him that it had probably happened that way.
"Then he's joined whoever he's in league with," Mr. Lakewood said when he had finished.
"Looks like it," the captain agreed.
"Then we may look for something to happen most any time?"
"Not till we find what we're after, I'm thinking."
"It's good riddance to bad rubbish, I'm thinking," Jack declared.
"I agree with you provided the riddance is permanent," Bob added.