They finished him, poor fool! I had no outer clothes of my own.

So I went back and put on his.

Then I slipped through that chuckle-headed aggregation out there and--here I am." As he finished speaking, he turned his icy smile upon Gavin Brice.
"Roke signaled a fruit boat, Mr.Brice," said he, "and came over to where my yacht was lying, to tell me you had gotten loose.

That was why I came here, tonight.

He seems to think you know more than a man should know and yet stay alive.