They easily disguised themselves when they were a-shore, as vendors of fruit, and as the other small dealers that may be seen of a-morning, in their little canoes around the ships at anchor, in the ports of the tropics.
In their assumed course of bartering, they managed to elicit from the sailors of the man-of-war, intelligence about Appadocca, and the part of the vessel in which he was confined.
As soon as they became possessed of as much information as they possibly could procure, they returned on board the schooner, and carefully narrated the sum of their observation to Lorenzo.
Return we now to Appadocca himself.
CHAPTER XV.
“What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!”
Romeo and Juliet.
The period accorded by the friendship of Charles Hamilton to the prisoner, for the acceptance or rejection of his offer to become the means of his escape, had now expired, and the two young friends were sitting together in the cabin-prison in which Appadocca was confined.
“So you will not consent to put aside your insane notions and escape, when I place it in your power to do so?” said Charles Hamilton, dejectedly, and, at the same time, somewhat scornfully, twisting his whiskers.