“Quick, Jim, it ain’t no time for fooling around and moaning; there’s a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don’t hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can’t get away from the wreck there’s one of ’em going to be in a bad fix. But if we find their boat we can put all of ’em in a bad fix – for the sheriff ‘ll get ’em.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 12. Huck yells out to Jim that there are murderers on the wrecked boat, who are plotting to leave one of their own to drown. He hatches a plan to trap them on the wreck so the sheriff can nab them.