And this was a dying man who was in a position to know.

I'm sure his advice was meant well and was based on knowledge.

I think, Mr.Huysman, that I shall have a large score to settle with Adrian Van Zoon." "Well, maybe you have.

But tell me, lad, how you were lost and how you came back." So, Robert told the long story again, as he had told it to Elihu Strong, though he knew that he was telling it now to one who took a deeper and more personal interest in him than Colonel Strong, good friend though the latter was.

Jacobus Huysman had settled back into his usual calm, smoking his long pipe, and interrupting at rare intervals with a short question or two.
"It iss a wonderful story," he said, when Robert finished, "and I can see that your time on the island wass not wholly lost.