"Quite sure."
"Then it is not worth while to attempt persuasion; but to return to another point, Captain Wildfoot, we value men of your spirit and daring too much to give them up when they come once among us. We must even detain you by other means than persuasion."
"I thank you for the honor, Sir William," said Wildfoot, with a grateful inflection, "but I had formed another plan, somewhat different in manner but similar in the result that you mention."
"May I ask just what you mean?"
"It is not necessary for us to be separated under my plan."
"I do not understand yet."
"I had thought, Sir William, of taking you with me when I left Philadelphia."
The deep red flushed Sir William's swarthy face again. My amazement at Wildfoot's presumption increased, but I remembered the case of the English general Prescott, who had been kidnapped in Rhode Island by the daring American captain, Barton.
"Do you mean that you would carry me off as a prisoner?" asked Sir William.