"Yes."
"And, if you had continued on board, you would probably have shared their fate."
"Yes; but do you mean to say you blowed the steamer up? asked Jaspar, with a sneer.
"Exactly so!"
"Fool! do you expect me to believe such a miserable rigmarole as this?"
"I hope you will, for it is strictly true," returned the attorney, convincingly.
Jaspar looked incredulous, and resorted to the brandy-bottle, which seemed to bear the same relation to him that the oracle of Delphi did to the ancient Greeks.
"You do not think me capable of inventing such a story, I trust," said De Guy, seriously.
"Ha! ha! ha! you have joined the church, haven't you, since we met last?"
"I see, sir, you think, because I assisted you in your plans, that I have no honor, no conscience, no humanity. Why, sir, what I have done for you was only a duty which my religion demanded of me."