“Your ‘share!’” repeated Mar reflectively, and stroked his long gray mustache.
“I was arranging to get the girl away,” he went on presently, “when you came. I had bought this boat and made a habit of being out all day.”
“Exactly! All we need is provisions.”
“No, I sent Christianson to St. Michaels for provisions. They’re at the mission now.”
“Of course, we brought them up with us! Then we’ve nothing to do but to get the stuff into the boat.”
“Without exciting suspicion.”
“And pick the girl up somewhere on the coast.”
“—before they realize we’re gone for good.”
“Surely you and I could start off on an excursion together without exciting suspicion. Why, you told them when you first came, you were going up the coast, ‘to have a look at the country,’” he added, remembering Christianson’s phrase.