If you're not back in ninety days, I tell you plainly, I'll make one of the biggest busts ever seen upon this coast; it's life or death for Mr.Dodd and me.

As like as not, it'll come to grapples on the island; and when I heard your name last night--and a blame' sight more this morning when I saw the eye you've got in your head--I said, 'Nares is good enough for me!'" "I guess," observed Nares, studying the ash of his cigar, "the sooner I get that schooner outside the Farallones, the better you'll be pleased." "You're the man I dreamed of!" cried Jim, bouncing on the bed.

"There's not five per cent of fraud in all your carcase." "Just hold on," said Nares.

"There's another point.

I heard some talk about a supercargo." "That's Mr.Dodd, here, my partner," said Jim.
"I don't see it," returned the captain drily.