"I can hardly believe it possible," muttered Glennie.
Dick turned on the ensign.
"You had as big a finger in the pie as any one," said he, "and you took the foolhardy risk like a whole man. I like you better this minute, John Glennie, than I ever thought I could. Toss us your fin!"
Glennie looked surprised, then a pleased look crossed his face and he reached forward and caught the young sailor's hand.
"If I've won your friendship by that piece of work, then I've had a double gain," said he.
"Vat in der vorld," chimed in Carl, "dit dose fellers shpeak to you like you vas a tog for? Und arrest you und keep you apoardt der var ship? I hat id all fixed oop in my mindt to put a dorpeto indo dot gruiser oof she ditn't led you go."
"It isn't very clear to me yet," answered Matt, "what I was made a prisoner for. Garcia started the trouble for me——"
"He said he would, you remember," put in Glennie.
"Yes, and he carried out his threat as soon as he got on the deck of the war ship. He told one of the officers that he had hired me to take him and his friends out of that sailboat in the Grampus, and that I had lost my courage and was heading for Sandy Point with them."
"You don't mean to say that this Captain Sandoval believed that?" cried Glennie.