"I won't question your motives," remarked Broadmayne imperturbably. "But I take it you have no Admiralty warrant to act as a privateer in peacetime? Then, as I said before, you must be a pirate. Rather interesting, what? I was under the impression that gentlemen of that type were as extinct as the dodo."
"Who and what are you, Mr. Broadmayne?" demanded Captain Cain.
"Sub-lieutenant, Royal Navy."
"You are—or were?"
"Am," declared Broadmayne, with a tone that indicated he was proud of his profession.
A look of disappointment flitted across the face of the pirate captain.
"Then what were you doing on a private yacht?"
The Sub told him.
"Vyse, did you say?" interrupted Captain Cain. "Vyse? Any relation to the north-country magnate of that name?"
"Son," replied Broadmayne. The next instant he felt angry with himself for having divulged that part.