“I will. Now, confound it, tell me where you are going?”
“To the Aurora.”
“You haven’t seen any sign of the pirate, have you? I haven’t.”
“No.”
“Then what makes you so certain that the Aurora is the place to go?”
“I think, from what you have said, that she is the yacht which will be the object of attack, if an attack is made; but, anyhow, her position is much better than ours. She is farther out and she lies so that she will be first in line for attack, even if the pirate has no direct information about her.”
“But the watch will see us come aboard, and there will be the devil to pay.”
“I have just told you that you are to do as Chick and I do; however, I may as well tell you that I am not going aboard of her.”
“Oh! You are not?”
“Max, there is only one way to capture this pirate and his ship as well, if he does enter this harbor to-night, and that is to go aboard of the Shadow.”