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You understand -- there 's only one ship in port , and -- he must n't get away . '' `` He wo n't , '' said Voorhees , with conviction , and the listener overhead smiled grimly to himself , for at that moment , twenty miles offshore , lay Mac 's little tug , hove to in the track of the outgoing steamship , and in her tiny cabin sat Bill Wheaton eating breakfast . As the morning wore by with no news of the lawyer , McNamara 's uneasiness grew . At noon the marshal returned with a report that the passengers were all aboard and the ship about to clear . `` By Heavens ! He 's slipped through you , '' stormed the politician . `` No , he has n't .