"I never saw this chap before he came into the engine-room.

He doesn't know me, and I don't know him." "You hear what Hackett has to say," said the engineer, turning to Frank.
"I hear what this fellow has to say, but his name is not Hackett." "Is not ?" "No, no more than mine is Hackett." "Then what is his name ?" "His name is Harris!" asserted Merry, "and he is a gambler and a crook.
I'll guarantee that he has not been long on the 'Eagle.'" "No; we took him on in New York scarcely two hours before we sailed.

We needed a man, and he applied for any kind of a job.

Found he had worked round machinery, and we took him as wiper and general assistant." "It was not so many weeks ago that he attacked me at New Haven," said Frank.

"He failed to do me harm.