Chapter 19 Summary

Next morning they try to decide what to do. Dick wants to take his five thousand dollars and go to work on his boat, but Parker shows him the whelks and tells him that's where his five thousand is. Dick reminds Parker that he was working on a job, not on a percentage. Dick thinks of rowing in with the skiff and leaving Parker, but even if he gets in safe it will be fingering Parker, and he is not ready to turn on him yet.

They all contribute plans, none of which seems very good to them all. Finally Parker takes control, and revises a plan that Keith mapped out. They will pour bait over the whelps which contain the dope, leave them in plain sight on the deck, then Parker will get his station wagon and load the whelp with a...