“Oh, I don’t know about that. There would be too many of them for him, wouldn’t there?”
“Not if he is a submarine, and he is one. And say, Max, that thought suggests a question.”
“What is it?”
“Does the count happen to know about that meeting?”
“What meeting? Oh, you mean the club meeting?”
“Certainly. You just referred to it.”
“Why, yes. I suppose he knows about it. He has heard me say that I wished to be at the meeting to-night.”
“So he also knows that there will be a lot of craft at this anchorage to-night, and that the owners and guests from them, almost to an individual, will be ashore at the club-house, doesn’t he?”
“I have never regarded him as a fool, Nick, and he would have to be pretty near one if he didn’t know that.”
“And I suppose, Max, that you are looking forward to creating a sensation when you tell the bunch about how you were boarded by a pirate and robbed like a gentleman, eh?”