The fool must have got to the bottle the moment I was gone." "But that bottle you put in his way; I saw you.

And what was your object?
To deaden his conscience with liquor, his and your own, while you made him your fiendish proposal.

Man, man, do you believe in God, and in a judgment to come for the deeds done in the body, that you can plan in cold blood to destroy a vessel with nineteen souls on board, besides the live stock, the innocent animals that God pitied and spared when he raised his hand in wrath over Nineveh of old ?" While the clergyman was speaking, with flashing eyes and commanding voice, the seaman turned ashy pale, and drew his shoulders together like a cat preparing to defend her life.
"I plan to destroy a vessel, sir! You never heard me say such a word; and don't you hint such a thing in the ship, or you will get yourself into trouble." "That depends on you." "How so, sir ?" "I have long suspected you." "You need not tell me that, sir." "But I have not communicated my suspicions.

And now that they are certainties, I come first to you.

In one word, will you forego your intention, since it is found out ?" "How can I forego what never was in my head ?" said Wylie.