Dormer Colville was only anticipating events when he took away the character of the Captain of the "Petite Jeanne." Turner had himself proposed this alternative method of securing Barebone's silence.

He had even named the sum.

He had seized the excellent opportunity of laying it before Barebone in the quiet intimacy of the rectory drawing-room with Miriam in the soft lamp-light beside him, with the scent of the violets at her breast mingling with the warm smell of the wood fire.
And Barebone had laughed at the offer..