They might hesitate, discuss, but they would never flee in panic.

Surely not with that ruffian Estada yet alive to lead them, and the knowledge that fifty thousand pounds was yonder in that unguarded house, with no one to protect the treasure but two old men asleep, and the women.

The women!--Dorothy! What would become of her?
Into whose hands would she fall in that foul division of spoils?
Estada's?
Good God--yes! And I, afloat and helpless in this boat, what could I do?
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