I felt that I had done my part in vindicating my friend; and after all, no one, evidently, was accustomed to believe what Charles said.
"As I was saying," he continued, "I suspected Carr from the first.

I did not like the look of him, and I purposely pumped Middleton about him last night at supper." I nearly burst out at the bare idea of Charles daring to say he had pumped me; but, as will be seen, he could twist anything that was said to such an extent that it was perfectly useless to contradict him any longer.

I said not a single word, and he went on: "All Middleton told me confirmed me in my suspicions.

Sir John had been murdered the night before Middleton sailed for England, a whisper of the jewels having no doubt gone abroad.

Carr came on board next day, and made friends with Middleton.