“Well, now, supposing they weren't sure but what she would be sent up here too? It was as likely as not.”
“It should have been done.”
“Then wouldn't they have been fools to have put right out again to cross the Lake—with one steamer coming down on 'em through the Straits and another coming up from Detroit?”
“Fools or not, they did it. We know that much.”
“Do we?”
“Don't we!”
“I don't see it.”
“Don't you see what they've done? They have left your schooner here and gone off in Spencer's.
“Who has?”
“Look here, Smiley, you are on the wrong side of this case. You ought to be working for the government.”