"I tell you," said the man, "it's going to stand us in hand to get that fellow on; the game is all dead against us, and we'll whistle for our share of prize-money."
"Come along with us and we may find our man; you can identify him?"
"Identify the devil! let me see him just one second."
The men, as a fact, failed to discover the island mystery, and different parties returned and reported to Ike Denman.
When the master of the "Nancy" heard of the laying out of another of his sentinels, his rage knew no bounds, and calling his men around him he declared;
"We must find out this fellow. He cannot have left the island."
One of the men suggested:
"We may never get a sight of him."
"If it is Ballard we can recognize him."
The men were sent away once more, and many of their passive confederates on the island were aroused and started out on the search; indeed the island became alive with secretly armed men.