Why ?" "'Cause you's done gone an' cotched 'im.

Jes' you come an' see." The sound of Dick's voice, so near them, reached the dull ears of the slumbering tramp; and as Ham and Dabney sprang into a yawl, and pushed along-side the yacht, his unpleasant face was slowly and sleepily lifted above the rail.
"It's the very man!" excitedly shouted Dabney.
"The tramp ?" "Yes,--the tramp!" No one would have suspected Ham Morris of so much agility, although his broad and well-knit frame promised abundant strength; but he was on board "The Swallow" like a flash, and Burgin was "pinned" by his iron grasp before he could so much as guess what was coming.
"Le' go o' me!" "I've got you!" It was too late for any such thing as resistance; and the captive settled at once into a sullen, dogged silence, after the ordinary custom of his kind when they find themselves cornered.

It is a species of dull, brute instinct, more than cunning, seemingly; but not a word more did Ham and Dab obtain from their prisoner,--although they said a good many to him,--until they delivered him over to the safe-keeping of the lawful authorities at the village.

That done, they went home to breakfast, feeling that they had made a good morning's work of it, but wondering what would be the end and result of it all.
"Ten years, I guess," said Ham.
"In State prison ?" "Yes.

Breaking stone.