Jack stood on the veranda and raised his glass to his eye.
He scanned the people in the boats carefully, but could not distinguish his enemy.
Still, Hunston had gone on board.
Kassala was sent to Mecca to get the money for Jack’s ransom draft.
Koosh was in the foremost boat.
Hunston had never been a fighter.
He could scheme and make others fight, but if he could avoid it he never went into the front of the battle.
Life was too precious to be risked.
He was discovered, as Jack raised his glass to the ship, sitting aft.
Hunston also had a binocular, and with a complacent smile, which indicated satisfaction, was watching events.