"A little later and you had lost your voyage.

Tide waits for no man, and Thorgils sails with the tide he waits.

Therefore Thorgils waits for no man." Just for a moment a thought came to me that Thorgils was in league with the outlaws, and that was hard.

But Evan's next words told me that in this I was wrong.

It would seem that the taking of his ill-gotten goods across the channel had been planned by Evan before he fell in with me, and maybe that already made plan was the saving of my life, by putting the thought of an easy way to dispose of me to some profit into the outlaw's head.
"I had been here earlier," he said, "but for a mischance to my friend here.