The women on this island will be protected, Miss Clinton, if we have to kill Manuel Crust and his fol-lowers.

It is true he has been preaching that sort of gospel among the vicious and ignorant Portugees and half-casts, but it's all talk.

Don't pay any attention to it." "We can't help being worried.

Suppose his following is much larger than you think.

They are a rough, lawless crowd, and--" "Ninety-five per cent, of the men here are decent.