"Well, there's Captain Dynamite yet to be counted on."
"Humph, where is he and what could he do if he were here?"
"I don't know, Bert, but you can't make me believe that he would abandon us completely to our fate. It's not like him, I tell you."
"If all the hope we have is centred in Dynamite or Wyman I think it is time we began to think of doing something for ourselves."
"Sure," answered Harry in surprise, "but what under the sun can we do, Bert?"
"We might——" Bert hesitated and glanced nervously at his companion; "we might effect some compromise with Serano."
"How?" asked Harry, coldly.
"We might agree to tell him what he wants to know about how we got to the island when we can be assured that it will injure no one."
"There are two reasons why that plan would be useless. In the first place how are we going to tell when Captain Dynamite is safe, and in the second place the affair has gone so far now that I do not think Serano would be satisfied with simply that information. He is pretty well convinced that in some way we are connected with the Cuban cause."
"Oh, gee, I wish I had never gone sailing."