 Looking specifically at "The Rescue", Krenn points out that the novel had many omissions in its final publication.According to Krenn, those omissions show Lingard's adventure as an "intended subversion of the interests of European colonial authorities and his motivation as rooted in ambitions for power, the emphasis and attention of the narrative shift to Lingard's conflict of divided loyalties".According to David Thorburn, Conrad intended for "The Rescue" to be a boys' book, similar to Robert Louis Stevenson's works.