“Why should we go there?” he asked. “It strikes me that we will be going out of our way by doing so?”
“Why do you think that?”
“Searsport is to the eastward. It is away over in that direction.”
“Yes.”
“We should go directly down the bay.”
“Why?”
“To overtake the yacht, if it was stolen by Parker Flynn.”
“But I fail to understand your reasons.”
“Why, of course Flynn will make an effort to get out of Penobscot waters as soon as possible. He belongs in Boston, and——”
“For that very reason he will not sail that way. If he has the yacht, he is just foxy enough to know we may think he will head for Boston, and so he will choose another course.”