“Poole, my lad,” continued the skipper, “get one of the other men and go cautiously down to the landing-place with every care, and if you reach it unhindered, whistle up the boat at once. Carpenter, get others to help you, and start fires as quickly as you can. Very small. The others can do that, while you contrive your rough effigies.—Now, Don Ramon, you’ll take the covering of our efforts with your men while mine work. Remember, it is for our lives, and our only chance.”
Chapter Thirty One.
Fitz shows pepper.
“Here, Mr Burnett!” came out of the darkness, and Fitz stopped short. “Yes, sir.”
“Do you know that you are a great nuisance?”
It was invisible, but Fitz flushed and felt, after his fashion, peppery.
“I don’t understand you, sir,” he said hotly.
“I spoke plainly, my lad. You are always in my way, and you never were more so than at this minute.”