"Thank you for that," said Somers to himself. "If you had known me all my lifetime, you couldn't have said a better or a truer thing of me."
"I know he is actually reeking with what he calls loyalty. He will be a hard subject, but I think he can be brought over."
"Perhaps he can."
"It must be done; that is the view we must take of the matter."
"It will be easier to believe it than to do it."
"This is to be your share of the enterprise."
"Mine?"
"Yes."
"Well, I think you have given me the biggest job in the work."
"It can be done," said Coles, confidently. "Somers is a mere boy in years, though he is smarter and knows more than any man in the navy in the prime of life."