"Well done, Ingle! But for your quickness we should have been snarled up with the other boats. Next time we must come to them with more caution."
"Why take the risk again? Death has been before us in claiming our prisoner."
"Ay, but his jailor and the accomplices are yet to be reckoned with if Maryland justice is not to become a byword and a hissing."
"Governor Brent," Ingle spoke in slow, reluctant tones, "did you chance to read the name of the larger packet as we passed?"
"Nay, I was too much occupied with saving the skin of my own boat. Did you?"
"I did."
"And the name—"
"Was The Reformation."
"Ah!"
"Yes, and I saw Dick aboard her striding up and down the deck in a fury, swearing like the cutthroat he is."