“The very ship we are after!” murmured Dave.
“Could you get another cargo for Barbados, do you think?”
“I don’t know—maybe. Why?”
“We want to go there!”
“You do! That isn’t much of a place.”
“But we have a reason for wanting to go,” went on Phil. And then, knowing he could trust Captain Sanders, he told the story of the stolen gems and the search for Merwell and Jasniff.
“Humph! that’s a queer yarn,” mused the captain of the Golden Eagle. “Supposing I got a cargo for that port—you’d go along?”
“I would,” answered the shipowner’s son, promptly. “That is, if dad would let me—and I’m sure he would.”
“So would I go,” added Dave.
“I’d have to go—to look after the others,” said Dunston Porter, with a smile.