"Mon Dieu! He fought me like a mad rat." "The Englishman, you say?
He was here then?
It was he you battled with?
What became of the fellow ?" "He went down there, Senor.

The dog stabbed me three times.

It was either he or I to go." "You mean you threw him overboard ?" "Ay, with his ribs crushed in, and not a breath left in his damned body.

He's never come up even--I've watched, and there has not been so much as a ripple where he sank." The two must have hung in silence over the rail staring down.

I dared not advance my head to look, nor even move a muscle of my body in the water, but both were still standing there when Estada finally gave utterance to an oath.
"How know you it was the man ?" "Who else could it have been?
You have the others." "Ay, true enough; yet it will go hard with you, Cochose, when the Captain learns of this--he would have the fellow alive." "As well attempt to take a tiger with bare hands--see, the blood yet runs; a single inch to the left, and it would be I fed to the fishes.
Pah! what is the difference, Senor, so the man dies ?" "Right enough, no doubt; anyway it is not I who must face Sanchez, and it is too late now to change fate.