"And you will do it?"
"If you think it worth the sum I want."
"It's a tamned pig brice, Pill Punce," exclaimed Jake.
"Ay," was the reply: "but if we can manage to give the detective the slip, I'll warrant he'll be willing enough to pay it."
"Of course, of course," assented Barney; "we won't dispute your price, Bill."
"Then we understand each other, do we?"
"I suppose so; but to make certain just go over the programme, will you?"
"Well, after I've found this fellow, Chamberlain, I'm to get him over to the bay, where the Bouncing Betsy lies, and where you will meet us. In case we don't find you at old Flipper's, I am to take the lad on board the schooner at once, which, when you're all aboard, will sail for the quarries, eh?"
"Yes, for the island, so-called."
"Correct. And there, in Canter's Hole, all will be safe till the schooner sails for the Gulf, when you can all get out of the country without any one's dreaming how it was managed."