In a short time Caius had heard of various other adventures which she and her master had shared together.

He was interested to know if any of them would throw any light upon the remarkable conduct of O'Shea and his friends; but they did not.
"The men about here," he said--"I can't make anything out of them--are they lawless ?" "You see"-- in explanatory tone--"if you take a man and expose him to the sea and the wind for half his life, you'll find that he is pretty much asleep the other half.

He may walk about with his eyes open, but his brain's pretty much asleep; he's just equal to lounging and smoking.
There are just two things these men can do--fish, and gather the stuff from wrecks.

They'll make from eight dollars a day at the fishing, and from sixteen to twenty when a wreck's in.

They can afford to be idle the rest of the time, and they are gloriously idle." "Do they ever gather in bands to rob wrecked ships, or for other unlawful purposes ?" "Oh no, not in the least! Oh no, nothing of the kind! They'll steal from a wreck, of course, if they get the chance; but on the sly, not by violence.