human
My scheme, said I,
gpt
continued I,
human
Smuggling was risky work. How would it be if we represented that we had found the schooner washing about with nobody aboard?
gpt
The tale wouldn't be credited, said I.
human
The age of the vessel would tell against such a story, even if you removed all other evidence by throwing the clothes and small-arms overboard and whatever else might go to prove that the schooner must have been floating about abandoned since the year 1750!
gpt
Musn't lose de clothes, massa, on no account,
human
Well, sir, says Wilkinson, after another spell of reflection,
gpt
I reckon you're right. If so be the law would seize the vessel and goods on the grounds that she had been a pirate and all that's in her was plunder, why, then, certainly, I don't see nothin' else but to make a smuggling job of it, as you say, sir.
human
As for the _Boca del Dragon_, I added,
gpt
Wilkinson would recognize her if she were in the middle of a thousand sail, and indeed a farmer's boy would be able to distinguish her for her uncommon oddness of figure. I was satisfied to underscore the words