“We have not caught the artful beggar yet,” he replied, “but when I do he will have to suffer.”
“Do you mean to be avenged?”
“I think I have a right to be. The man is mad. He is nourishing an insane idea all the time.”
That was so.
The elder Hunston thought sincerely enough that Young Jack or his father was the cause of his brother’s misfortunes and death.
He had espoused his cause.
Whenever Hunston had had a chance he had endeavored to ruin Jack.
This was not very chivalrous on his part.
They had now reached the beach.
The men manned the boat. All Arabs living on the banks of the Red Sea are good boatmen, and can sail a full rigged schooner as well as any one.