In the dead of night I went to Ericson's house.

I had the same revolver I've got now, and I made him stay in bed while I overhauled things.

Nineteen hundred and odd francs was what I carried away with me.
He never complained to the police, and he never came back on board.

As for the rest of the gang, they laughed and snapped their fingers at me.
There were two Americans in the place, and they warned me to leave the law alone unless I wanted to leave the _Miele_ behind as well.
"Then I sent to New Zealand and got a German mate.

He had a master's certificate, and was on the ship's papers as captain, but I was a better navigator than he, and I was really captain myself.