"Not that pretty girl yonder," he said, "has brought bad luck to the Seamew. No, no!"
"What, then?" asked Eunez, staring sidewise at him from eyes which seemed almost green.
"See!" said Johnny, seizing her wrist. "If the Seamew is a Jonahed schooner, it is because of something different. Yes!"
"Bah!" cried Eunez, yet with continued eagerness. "Tell me what it may be if it is not that girl with the evil eye?"
"Ask 'Rion Latham," whispered Johnny. "You know him—huh?"
The Portygee girl looked for a moment rather taken aback. Then she said, tossing her head:
"What if I do know 'Rion?"
"Ask him," repeated Johnny Lark. "He is cousin of our captain. He knows—if anybody knows—what is the trouble with the Seamew." And he shook his head.
Eunez stared at him.
"You know something you do not tell me, Juan?"