"They certainly fetched old Chatfield to make him hand over the gold! They won't go away without that! And he said that he'd hidden the gold somewhere near Scarhaven.
Therefore, they'll have to come down this coast to get it." "Not necessarily," replied Sir Cresswell, with a knowing shake of the head.

"You may be sure they're alive to all the exigencies of the situation.

They could do several things once they'd got Chatfield on board again.

Some of them could land with him at some convenient port and make him take them to where he's hidden the money; they could recapture that and go off to some other port, to which the yacht had meanwhile been brought round.

If we only knew where Chatfield had planted that money--" "He said near Scarhaven, unmistakably," remarked Vickers.
"Near Scarhaven!" repeated Sir Cresswell, laughing dismally.