`` she has not traded them for your getting ordinary cloth , '' temeraire said , with increasing suspicion , and swung his head around to count the sailors where they lay in the courtyard drowsing : he was sorry to say it , but he did not entirely put it past either forthing or even ferris to have allowed one of the men to sneak away to another dragon , in exchange for more bribery ; a practice which temeraire did not mean to continue .