“To run to Portland.”
“They may follow us in a faster ship.”
“We have too great a start of them, and they may not suspect we are going there.”
“You intend to collect the insurance money?”
“Yes.”
“And then?”
“Land the boy and sail to some distant port.”
All that afternoon and night the yacht sailed before a swift breeze.
The next day about noon the craft landed at the wharf at Portland.
There had been no indications of a pursuing ship.