"But I've an idea--this is probably one of the seventy-odd islands of the Orkneys: I've sailed round here before.

If I'm right, it's most likely one of the outlying and uninhabited ones.

Andrius--or his controlling power--has dropped us--and Chatfield--here, knowing that we may have to spend a few days on this island before we succeed in getting off.

Those few days will mean a great deal to the _Pike_.

She can be run into some safe harbourage on this coast, given a new coat of paint and a new name, and be off before we can do anything to stop her.