day. He spoke English to a smuggler and had a smattering of Spanish for a contrabandista. He had a variety of aphorisms to justify this: “You can get some good out of knowing evil.”—“The gamekeeper can learn something from the poacher.”—“The pilot must take soundings of the pirate, who is a kind of hidden reef.”—“I taste a rascal as a doctor tastes poison.” These statements were unanswerable. Everyone agreed that Captain Clubin was right.
