“Don’t you propose to prosecute that scoundrel Schwartzbrod?”
“Prosecute? Bless my soul, what for?”
“For the trick he played on you and my father. He got that exculpating document from you under false pretenses.”
“Not at all, not at all. I made certain stipulations; he complied with them. I then gave him the exculpating document, as you call it, and there it ends. If I had been gifted with second sight, this vision would have revealed to me that the clever Schwartzbrod had caused the Rajah to sail with you a prisoner in her hold. But Schwartzbrod is not to blame because I possess no clairvoyant power, now is he?”
“You will do nothing, then?”
“My dear boy, there’s nothing to do.”
“Don’t you intend to stop these pirates from mining your gold, and getting it aboard the Rajah?”
“Certainly not: why should I?”
“Nor give information to the authorities?”
“Of course not. The authorities have more information now than they can use.”