Would that suffice to stop them?
The vivid memory came to me anew of that arch villain, Sanchez, lying where I had left him, his head resting in the surf--dead.

Would the discovery of his body halt his followers, and send them rushing back to their boat, eager only to get safely away?
This did not seem likely.

Estada knew of my boarding the sloop from the wharf, and would at once connect the fact of my being ashore with the killing of Sanchez.

This would satisfy him there was no further danger.

Besides, these were not men to be easily frightened at sight of a dead body, even that of their own captain.