“And you think you have the phrase?”
“I do, Louise! Why couldn’t it be: All for one, one for all?”
“If the men were close friends, that would be fairly logical. But the words we have to juggle don’t make such a sentence, Penny.”
“Obviously there must be a fourth sailor whose tattoo includes the words, ‘for all,’” argued Penny. “Then it would fit perfectly.”
“Just because four men were pals, you think they would have such nonsense tattooed on their backs?”
“That’s my theory.”
“If you’re right, then the mystery is solved.”
“Far from it,” corrected Penny. “I haven’t learned who pushed John Munn from the bridge or why. You remember how Anchor Joe talked about someone who had ‘ratted’? The four of them must have been in on a scheme, and one man betrayed his comrades.”
“Better bridle that imagination before it takes you for too wild a ride,” chuckled Louise.
“Then you think there’s nothing to my theory?” Penny demanded in an injured tone.