“We have been warned.”

“You bet.”

“What shall we do?”

“We’ll land the lad.”

“When?”

“This very night.”

“How can we?”

“We are not more than two miles off the Long Island shore; you know we’ve been hovering around here.”

“Say, captain, you will lose your money.”

“Can’t help it; don’t propose to have dead men haunting me for all the money in the world.”