"We could put them on one of the schooners, and you could convoy them part way home," said Blair to Cathie. "I really don't think we have anything more to fear from them."
"I can do all that," said Cathie. "But all the same I'd as lieve they were none of them going home."
"Why?"
"Well, you never know. If ever they can do us a mischief you may take your davy they'll do it."
"I don't really see what they can do, captain."
But Cathie only shook his head. Perhaps his ideas were too vague to clothe in words.
Just then a shadowy figure slipped out of the darkness under the house, reached up, and rolled something softly along the platform towards them.
"Hello! What's this?" said Cathie.
