"Of what ... I had guessed," said Tony.
"And what did you guess?"
Tony hesitated.
"I guess," he said unhappily, "that I'd better not say."
He watched with a startled, uneasy expression on his face as Tony put the apparatus away.
Time passed. Davis and Deirdre had been ashore over an hour. Then Terry saw the small boat leave the shore and approach. It came deftly alongside, the two passengers climbed up to the deck, and all four crew-cuts hauled the boat back inboard and lashed it fast.
"Our dredge isn't ready yet," said Davis. "It looks good, but there'll be a delay of a few days."
Deirdre examined Terry's expression.
"Something's happened. What?"
Terry told her. Davis listened. Tony added what he'd seen, including the fish that had leaped high enough out of the water to land on the Esperance's deck.