"Well, what is he about?"
"He is going to capture the Bellevite."
"He will have a nice time of it!" exclaimed Percy. "That steamer can blow him out of the water a dozen times before he gets near her."
"I don't believe your brother has any idea that the Bellevite is heavily armed," added Christy.
"But he has been on board of her."
"That is very true; but the two heavy guns were covered up, and the others were sent down into the hold. All the soldiers in the boat with your brother have their muskets; and he would not have taken the lieutenant and six men with him if he were simply going for the doctor for Captain Pecklar, as he told me he was."
"I believe Lindley is a fool to think of such a thing as capturing the Bellevite with eight men," added Percy.
"I don't know what else he can intend to do, but I do know why he don't take the tug any nearer to the steamer. He don't want my father to know what has become of me."
"Can't you make some sort of a signal to him, Christy?"
"I can do something better than that."