“Go on.”
“Now, I'm just as sure as that I'm sitting here, that when it came to a crisis like this, those two would disagree.”
“And you ought to know them.”
“I know McGlory. He isn't the kind that takes orders from anybody, drunk or sober. And from the look I had at old Spencer, I don't think he is either. He looked to me like a cool hand. Quiet, you know, with a sort of cold eye. It doesn't sound like Spencer to put out into the Lake with revenue cutters closing in all around him.”
“But does it sound like McGlory?”
“Exactly. He's bull headed.”
“Then you think the other schooner was here?”
“More than likely.”
“And McGlory took it and Spencer didn't?”
“That's getting near it.”