"We shall certainly be taken, Dan," said she, as she caught sight of the boat beneath the main boom of the schooner. "We are lost."
"No, Lily, not lost. You shall never be taken while I have a drop of blood left in my body," replied Dan, in a low and earnest tone.
"Why, they are ever so much nearer than they were when we first saw them."
"That is true; but it is only because I changed the course of the boat."
"Why did you change it, then?"
"Because, if I run her down into the corner of the lake, they can easily cut us off."
"I suppose you have done the best you could."
"There was no other way to do," answered Dan, as he glanced under the boom at the pursuer. "We shall soon know which boat goes the fastest now."
"I don't understand it at all," said Lily, whose knowledge of seamanship was very limited.
"You know the shape of the letter A?"