“But we don’t really need any rest, sir,” Bob assured him.
“Better let me be the judge of that You see, it will take me all of that time to make arrangements, and I imagine there’s no great hurry. They won’t be apt to send over another load for a few days at any rate.”
“Might I ask how you intend to go at it?” Jack asked.
“You can ask anything,” the captain smiled, “but that is a pretty hard question to answer just at present because, candidly, I don’t know. What would you suggest?”
“Well, we were discussing the thing while we were watching that cabin and wondered if there was any way in which you could chase that fellow in a plane. Frankly, we couldn’t figure out how you could do it, as they’d be sure to see you and signal him not to light.”
“You didn’t run across any other place near there where a machine could take off, I suppose?”
“There’s none this side of it, that’s sure,” Bob replied.
“I supposed not, and it’s probably about the same the other side.”
“Not much doubt about that, I’m afraid.”
“Well, let’s go to supper and we’ll talk it over later. But you’d better call up your folks first. I know they must be anxious about you,” the captain proposed.