“Not before toward morning, I imagine.”
“Why do you put it so late?”
“Well, he will suppose that many of the people here will remain at the club until late, and will still prefer to sleep aboard their yachts.”
“Sure. And some of them will do that very thing. However, I have arranged for our particular outfit to remain at the club to-night; and I did another thing, too.”
“What was that?”
“I put Burton next to that idea about the count. I had to do it, and Burton is all right, you know. If it should turn out that we are entirely mistaken about it, nobody will ever get a word about it out of Burton; you can bet your sweet life on that.”
“Very good. Well, what did you do?”
“I told Burton to stick tighter than a brother to the count all the evening, and to keep him and some of the other fellows going till the wee small hours of the morning at that. I don’t want him to get an opportunity to do any of that signaling you talked about.”
“Nor I.”