'The same occurred to me. But then, as the Good Lord endowed me with more brains, and less bile, than some, I reckoned that if this had been the case, the Raskolnik would've thrown the victims overboard – especially after they waxed gruesome. Mr. Foot – and I only tell you this, lass, in order to clear Yevgeny's name – said that the meatier parts of these corpses had been picked clean to the bone by seagulls.'