"
"Well?"
"Ringleader was this same man, George Gordon."
"No!" exclaimed Mr. Carr.
"No reasonable doubt about it. Friend of his feels none: can't
understand how G.G. could have turned suddenly cruel; never was that.
Pooh! when men have been leading lawless lives in the bush, perhaps taken
regularly to drinking--which G.G. was inclined to before--they're ready
for any crime under the sun."
"But how do you connect Gordon with the ringleader of that diabolical
mutiny?"
"Easy enough. Same name, George Gordon: wrote to a friend the ship he was
coming home in--_Morning Star_. It _was_ the same; price on G.G.'s head
to this day: shouldn't mind getting it. Needn't pother over it, sir;
'twas Gordon: but he'd never put his foot in London."
"If true, it would account for his not showing himself to his
friend--assuming that he did come back," observed Mr. Carr.
"Friend says not. Sure that G.G., whatever he might have been guilty of,
would go to him direct; knew he might depend on him in any trouble. A
proof, he argues, that G.G. never came back."
"But I tell you he did come back," repeated the barrister. "Strange the
similarity of name never struck me," he added, turning to Lord Hartledon.
"I took some interest in that mutiny at the time; but it never occurred
to me to connect this man or his name with it. A noted name, at any rate,
if not a very common one.
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