“We did not. We never touched her.”
Harry Ware gasped.
“Are we all crazy? We hit that stern light and went clean through it.”
“We didn’t even hit a stern light.”
“But we saw it. It was as plain as the nose on your face.”
“We saw a light. That doesn’t prove that it was the gray motor boat’s stern light.”
“What, then?”
“It simply goes to show that those fellows on board her were too smart for us.”
“They played us a trick?”
“That’s what.”