“I hope so; but these fellows have been pretty cunning. I heard one of them say they had been on the watch for you several weeks.”
“I was a fool to come ashore here.”
“I don’t know why you were, unless you suspected something of this kind.”
“I hadn’t the remotest suspicion of anything. I don’t know of any reason why they should wish to treat me in this manner. I haven’t done anything to them.”
“But you don’t know who they are.”
“Well, I haven’t done anything to any fellows.”
“Are you sure of that, Waddie?”
“I don’t remember anything.”
“You don’t?” And it seemed very strange to me that he had forgotten the facts related to me by Dick Bayard.
“No, I don’t. Do you think I would lie about it?” retorted he, in a tone and manner which seemed quite natural to me.