We should, of course, be speedily discovered, and would then retreat to the boats.

I should naturally be the last to go, and might well manage to be cut off." "Yes," Wolfe replied, "but you might also, and that far more easily, manage to get shot.

I don't think that would do, Captain Walsham.

The risks would be twenty to one against your escaping being shot.

Can you think of no other plan ?" "The only other plan that I can think of," James said, "might involve others being taken prisoners.