A clerk suspecting us at Sydney, and a passenger suspecting us in the vessel.
There are two witnesses against us already." "No; only one." "How do you make that out ?" "Why, White's clerk and the parson, they was one man." Wardlaw stared in utter amazement.
"Don't ye believe me ?" said Wylie.

"I tell ye that there clerk boarded us under an alias.

He had shaved off his beard; but, bless your heart, I knew him directly." "He came to verify his suspicions," suggested Wardlaw, in a faint voice.
"Not he.

He came for love of the sick girl, and nothing else; and you'll never see either him or her, if that is any comfort to you." "Be good enough to conceal nothing.

Facts must be faced." "That is too true, sir.