“You are the worst sort Captain Brannigan! There’s a special place well below reserved for your soul. But I will not waste precious words on your decrepit character. It is these unfortunates I wish to address.
“Nothing I say will undo the harm caused by all this, so I will not even attempt to plead for forgiveness. In the beginning, it was true I had a financial as well as a higher purpose to see this voyage through. There is nothing malicious in that if it meant you were all settled in Hopeville, with a huge burden released from my life. In the end, we all would have been rewarded!
“I am truly surprised Brannigan admitted I had no part in his wicked plan. Though like I said before, I promised my very presence on this earth would vanish if what I spoke was false. I am a man of the cloth.
