Random laughed aloud when the name came into his puzzled head.

That buccaneer was the last person to surrender his plunder or to feel compunction in committing a crime.

Once the skipper got his grip on two jewels, worth endless money, he would never let them go--not even one of them.

Arguing thus, it seemed that Hervey was out of the running, and Random could think of no one else.

In this dilemma he remembered that two heads were better than one, and, before going into dinner, he sent a note to Archie Hope, asking him to come to the Fort as speedily as possible.
Sir Frank was somewhat dull at dinner on that evening, and scarcely responded to the joking remarks of his brother officers.