“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.