"Give me up to the sheriff, and you'll get five thousand dollars.

Help me, and you'll get nothing.
That's my d----d luck, and yours too, I suppose." "I reckon you're right there," said Patterson gloomily.

"But I thought you got clean away.

Went off in a ship--" "Went off in a boat to a ship," interrupted Tucker savagely; "went off to a ship that had all my things on board--everything.

The cursed boat capsized in a squall just off the Heads.