Can any of you tell me anything about him ?" The men gave no answer.
"You need not be afraid of speaking to me, you know," he went on, "and it's no business of mine whether any of the men on the shore were concerned in that affair.

The lieutenant has just been telling me of last night; but hearing of that, and finding Jim is missing, I can't help thinking there is some connection between the two things.

Nothing you say to me will go further, that I can promise you; but the lad's mother will be in a terrible way.

I can't make it out, for I know that, if he had anything to do with this smuggling business, he would have told me.

Again, if he was there and got away, he would naturally have come straight home, for his absence would only throw suspicion upon him." "Well, Mr.Wilks," the youngest of the sailors said, "I don't know nothing about it myself.