CHAPTER XIX.
PLANNING THE PIRATE’S CAPTURE.

“But all this,” said Kane, “does not track the fellow across the briny.”

“I am coming to that.”

“You figure that he has taken her—or is taking her—to Anjou?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“In the first place, Kane, he must have decided, in his own mind, that this trip of his across the ocean, with Bessie as a passenger on the Shadow, is his last and only chance.”

“I should say so.”

“And at the end of that voyage lies his fate.”