CHAPTER XXXVII.
WILL’S ESCAPE.
Will Bertram, locked in the cabin apartment, could only imagine what was going on outside from the movements of the yacht and of its crew.
There was a little port-hole in the place where he was, but it did not admit of his looking out to any advantage.
He knew that the yacht had reached its destination, but when, an hour later, it again set sail his heart sank at the uncertainty of his situation.
Once he tried the door of the place. It was locked, but he found he could easily burst it open.
To do this and have his escape discovered, however, would only be to subject himself to renewed abuse at the hands of Captain Morris.
He could look into the cabin through a little window, and here he stationed himself.
“I will try to escape to-night,” he decided mentally, and he waited patiently for night to come.
The cabin was not visited for several hours after the yacht reached and left Portland.
At last, however, the boat came to a stop. A few minutes later Captain Morris and Parker came into the cabin.