"We haven't seen him for a week."
"Answer me, or feed the fishes!"
"Madre de Dios!" exclaimed he, his teeth chattering with terror.
"If you don't mean to tell the whole truth, you need not say any more."
"I do! I do! I will tell all I know," he answered, quaking with terror, as he looked into the muzzle of my revolver.
"Then answer me. Did Waterford tell you to do this?"
"Yes."
"When, and where?"
I knew that there had been some concert of action between the pirates and the crew, and those in the steerage, and I was afraid that some of our men had been corrupted.
"I knew where was Mr. Waterford's berth in the steerage, and I talked with him through the bulkhead."