Irving Hancock

“ I'm wondering if I'd better call the captain."
"Do you think the stranger is traveling full speed?" demanded Carrick.
"Too far away to be certain, sir, but I should say she was."
"Then you would better call Captain Rourke," advised Donald Carrick quietly, while to Fleming he added, in an undertone: "If it's the Budzibu, then perhaps Ling succeeded in signaling her before fate overtook him, and she's trying to overhaul us."
"'Trying' to overhaul us?" retorted the chemist. "She won't have to try. That greyhound can't fail to overtake this slab-hulled sea cripple! ”

“ How strong a message does it take to call your captain from his bunk in the middle of the night? If that doesn't rout him out, just whisper the word, 'Pirates!' But hurry, my friend! Davy Jones is waiting for us at the bottom of the ocean! ”

“ But Ling persisted in remaining sullenly silent. Rourke was too big-hearted, possessed too large a sense of fair play to go beyond a certain point in manhandling even a Chinese assassin.
"Bad luck to ye, thin, for an obstinate haythen!" growled the tug's master. "Av ye won't talk at all, thin we'll l'ave it to the American courts to take it out av ye wid the electhric chair. Ye'll get that, all right, as soon as I return wid ye to the States and hand ye over to the law. In the meantime, 'tis no chance ye'll have to betther yersilf wid not speakin'. ”