The ferocity with which the man said that! He made me jump.
“So he desired, before all things being a wholly unprincipled fellow to keep secret the fact that he had what did not belong to him. He knew that if he attempted to take it himself it would never get there. He had two berths engaged upon this ship. He knew that the rightful owners of the property would be crossing in her. He formed a scheme to rob them of it that is the sort of man he is!”
The speaker held up both hands as if there were no words strong enough to express what he felt.
“In the meantime there came along this fool Beckwith, who actually handed over to him the property which he had formed such a desperate plan to get by force. It seems that his first thought was that Beckwith the fool! might take it for him to Ameri
