“Certainly you can; or, at least, certainly we can.”
“For Heaven’s sake, how?”
“Do you recall, Kane, the night when we swam aboard the Shadow?” asked Nick, referring to the time of the first capture of the pirate cruiser, when the brother of the count had been taken prisoner and sent to his just deserts.
“I should say I do.”
“Do you remember the conversation I overheard between the count’s brother—Captain Sparkle—and his wife?”
“Yes. Of course.”
“Don’t you recall the fact that at that time we learned the whole secret of their piratical proclivities? Don’t you remember how the woman hated it all, and hated her husband, also, because he had ever gone into the venture?”
“Yes.”
“And his explanation to her of his reasons, doubtless given to her for the hundredth or thousandth time?”
“Yes; certainly.”