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When he realizes it, Jode cries. He has put up a bold front in front / of Mr. Vachti and the Prof, but he has been scared all the way down / in his innards. Now he figures he's gonna be caught and either dumped / overboard in concrete or else put away for all his declining years, / and the grub in penitentiaries is terrible. Also -- I got to give him / credit for it -- he is scared for me. I am on the island; I can't get / off neither. And it is anybody's guess what Mr. Vachti will think / is appropriate for me. A reform school is the least unpleasing idea / that turns up. But Jode looks for worse than that. I believe the old / son-of-a-gun is honest fond of me!
But at that it takes plenty of argument to make him take the only / possible reasonable course. I suspect he thinks he will die, and that / gives him his only argument back. He makes me promise that if he does / die I will carry out the plan I had told him for the two of us. I / promise, impatient, and give him part of a bottle of pop that was left / on shore, with some clear yellow liquid mixed with it. He gulps it / down, gagging, while I heave overboard my empty bottles and hasty pack / up the hot dogs I got left. I make a muzzle for the pooch so he can't / bark, and I use the line he's chewed off for a leash. We go hunting for / a good hideout.