This gentleman was a deputy sheriff; but his name had no terror to Robert Taylor.
"Say, Bob, don't you think we had better get under way, and run for it?" added Monkey, his face brightening for a moment.
"What for?"
"Mr. Brooks said he had a warrant to take you up, and I s'pose he's on the lookout for you now."
"Take me up!" exclaimed Bobtail. "What for?"
"Something about a letter—I don't know what."
"I know," replied Bobtail, musing, for he could not think how, after he had been fully exonerated from the charge of taking that letter, he should again be accused.
The jib of the Penobscot was hoisted while he was musing, and she stood away towards the Spindles off North-east Point.