WHEN WE GOT JUST UNDER HER TAIL WE COULD HEAR A MURMUR OF VOICES
So we grabbed and lay still on the water. But we couldn’t make out a word for quite a while. Then one of the men got up and stood right over us and says, “Well, so far—so good.”
“Any fool can chase a boat in broad daylight,” says the other man, who came and stood by him.
“But we aren’t sure he’s aboard.”
“I am,” says the other man.
“Wish I was. If we’ve been fooled——”
“Oh, he never suspected a thing. How should he?”
“A man that knows what he knows is suspicious of everybody and everything—if he’s got any sense. And this fellow’s got some sense. We shouldn’t have hung to his heels so close.”
“Rubbish.”
“And, as I said, he may have fooled us. I didn’t see him aboard that yacht.”