I really thought about interfering, until I heard Colonel Costobell's opening words.

After that I would gladly have seen the beggar chucked into the harbor.

We never liked him, did we ?" "Ask no questions, Pompey, but go ahead with the yarn," growled the first lieutenant.
"Well, it seems that Mrs.Costobell is dead.

She got enteric a week after the _Orient_ sailed, and was a goner in four days.

Before she died she owned up." He paused, with a base eye to effect.