"Why didn't you rescue us from the savages?"
"We were running on a reef and had to look after our ship," was the lame excuse.
"You're a set of rascals!" burst out Dave Fearless, and he shook his fist at those on the Raven.
"Don't call me a rascal!" ejaculated Lemuel Hankers.
"But you are one, and your son is another," came from Dave. "The mask is off, and in the future you had better keep your distance, or there will be trouble for you."
"What are you doing here?" demanded Bart, leaning on the rail.
"You know well enough."
"You are after the sunken treasure."
"If we are it is because it belongs to my father and myself," retorted Dave.
"We are on the high seas," came from Lemuel Hankers. "The treasure was abandoned, and it will belong to whoever succeeds in raising it—if it can be raised."