"Suppose they kill me, what will you do, Renie?"
The girl was silent until the detective repeated his question.
"I know what I shall do!"
"What will you do?"
"Roam the beach until all hope of the recovery of your body is passed and then I shall lie down and die." She spoke in a weird, despairing tone.
"And you have known me but a few hours."
"Yes, I have known you to speak to you but a few hours, and yet I have come to believe that all the dreams of my life center in you."
The young man advanced and seized the girl's hand; the latter made no effort to withdraw it from his firm grasp.
"Renie," he said, "you need have no fear, I am not destined to die at the hands of the smugglers. I am assigned to a certain duty, the opportunity to fulfill my mission is now presented. I shall go on the yacht to-night, but when she returns I will return with her!"
"You are determined to go?"