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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was through him that Estada's murder was discovered. But he is safe enough for the present, for he made the attack on Manuel, and so will not dare go back on us. His life is in the balance. But wait, Tom; don't breathe in his ear our real purpose; I've convinced him that we mean to keep in the trade, dividing the treasure aboard, and sailing the bark to Porto Grande." "Oh, so that's the game?
The place was deserted, and, with a glance about, met Estada's eyes observing me closely. He didn't wait for me to question him. "Captain Sanchez's stateroom is aft," he said, with a wave of the hand. "The entire width of the bark?" "No, there are two rooms." "He is left alone?" "Jose is with him a negro, with a knack at nursing." "Who else is quartered aft here?"
It had been extinguished after the fleeing fugitive had entered Dorothy's stateroom. Did this mean that the slayer had an accomplice? If so, then the killing was not the result of a mere personal quarrel amidships, or in the forecastle; but the result of some conspiracy. I thought of Sanchez, and of Estada's plan to obtain control of the ship. Could this be its culmination?
"I do not think you will be, for surely such an attack can be no plan of Estada's. It could gain him no advantage. The fellow was pillaging on his own account; if he is missed it will be supposed he fell overboard, and no one will greatly care." "You will be able to learn? I I shall feel better if I know the truth." "Possibly; however it will be safer for me not to ask questions.
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