In the struggle he received a death wound." "I heard them fight.

This Hogan then was the leader ?" "Of those on board--yes.

But he is only the tool of others.

This devilish conspiracy has been plotted for a long while.

There must be a dozen involved in it, one way or another, but, as near as I can learn, the chief devil, the brains of the gang, is the fellow named Hobart.