“Can’t we shake him off some way?”
“That’s rather doubtful, but we can lead him a merry chase.”
“That’s something. What’s the plan?”
“We will walk down the street,” explained Jim, “as if we had no particular purpose in view, then we will separate, and you will go one way and I the other. Then, unless, as Tom says, ‘he is two gintlemen in wan,’ and can go both ways, he won’t know which one of us to follow.”
“Trust him for that,” said the chief engineer, “he’s sure to follow you.”
“So much the better,” returned Jim. “I think I’ll manage to keep him busy for the rest of the afternoon.”
“What do you want me to do?”
“You can go down to the maritime exchange, and see if you can learn of something in the way of a yacht that will serve us until we can get the Sea Eagle back. One to buy or hire, whichever is offered. You know what we want.”
“All right. I guess I can locate something.”