Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
But one of the sailors on the watch, just before dawn, had seen the supercargo and the chief engineer carry something up on deck, a bulky package, about the size of the native woman, look about them to see that they were unobserved, and drop it overboard; and it was said all over the ship that these two to avenge their friends had sought the girl out in her cabin and strangled her and flung her body into the sea.
When the ship arrived at Macassar they were arrested and taken to Batavia to be tried for murder.
The evidence was flimsy and they were acquitted.
But all through the East Indies they knew that the supercargo and the chief engineer had executed justice on the trollop who had caused the death of the two men they loved.
And thus ended the comic and celebrated friendship of the four fat Dutchmen.