"Hm! Have they said naught to you?"
"Not a word."
Arnold was smiling.
"Nor to you?" Gideon North demanded, seeing him smile.
"Nor to me."
"Then," said he, "you two know less than I, and I know little enough."
"If you know more than we, pray tell us what you can?"
"After all," said he, "I only know that we are looking for an island, and that when we find it the deviltry is yet to begin—" He smiled grimly. "We'll yet have a chance to see sparks fly from those weapons Gleazen hung in the cabin. I hear he's a clever man at the smallsword."
When he said that, Captain North looked at Arnold and me as if to question us.