Well, Harris came back in the highest state of excitement: and well he might: the papers were full of you, and of the burning of the Lady Jermyn! "Now mark what happened.

You know, of course, as well as I do; but I wonder if you can even yet realize what it was to us! Our prisoner hears that you are alive, and she turns upon Santos and tells him he is welcome to silence her, but it will do us ne good now, as you know that the ship was wilfully burned, and with what object.

It is the single blow she can strike in self-defence; but a shrewder one could scarcely be imagined.

She had talked to you, at the very last; and by that time she did know the truth.

What more natural than that she should confide it to you?
She had had time to tell you enough to hang the lot of us; and you may imagine our consternation on hearing that she had told you all she knew! From the first we were never quite sure whether to believe it or not.