"Frankly, I don't. It seemed to me as if they were speaking of a person."
"Then they must have a woman with them. Perhaps some Chinese woman they are smuggling in."
Suddenly a loud voice exclaimed in English: "Here's your channel now, you Chinks!"
"Allee light! Allee light! Hully up now," came the reply.
The breeze had increased. The fog was lifting a little. Certain sounds were heard that indicated a sailboat going about.
"Shall I start up?" asked Harry.
"Not yet," was the reply. "Let them get well into the channel, then we will close in on them."
The voices died away; the time to move had come.
"Now," said Old King Brady. Immediately the "chug-chug" of the motor made itself heard.
"Bear right down upon them," ordered the old detective; "a little brisk action will put us on the right side of this outfit, I hope. Alice, you get down in the boat."