"
"Quite right. And if--by any accident--he should fall from the
rigging, or else--"
"No, no, I won't have him put to death. God knows I wish my brother
were alive. The thought even that perhaps in my drunkenness I
sanctioned the changing of his medicine, almost drives me mad.--I am
satisfied, though, that we will have to hide this boy for a time in
some institution, and then announce to the authorities that at the
shipwreck, which we contemplate having, he perished."
"Captain, you are always for half-way measures. But as you like, so
long as you hold fast to our agreement--the half of the property."
"On the day on which I come into possession of the property, the half
is yours."
"Very well. You have sworn to this, and now be assured that just so
surely as you betray me, or attempt to cheat me out of the wages of my
sins, you are a dead man, even if at that very hour I go to eternal
damnation with you."
"You may depend upon me. Half and half, just as I have sworn. And now
I'll go for my nephew."
With these words the Captain stepped into the cabin.
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