Then there's the crew, Captain Cuffe.

They may think it strange treason and desertion go unpunished.

These fellows talk and reason more than is always known aft." "I've thought of all that, Winchester.

I dare say you have heard of such a thing as a King's evidence?
Well, here has Raoul Yvard been tried and found guilty as a spy; Bolt having been a witness.

A few remarks judiciously made may throw everything off on that tack; and appearances will be preserved, so far as discipline is concerned." "Yes, sir, that might be done, it's true; but an uneasy berth will the poor devil have of it, if the people fancy he has been a King's evidence.