“Yeah, look after her,” I said.
“Sure will.”
I went aboard and started the engines.
Duval cast off the lines.
“I think Flaggerty’s a buzzard too,” he said.
That told me he wasn’t going to sell us out as soon as we were out of sight.
“So do I,” I said.
I spun the wheel and edged the boat through the narrows to the cut that led to the outer bay.
The swell was long, fairly easy. After a while I rounded the breakwater and we were in the bay.
I looked back.