The cases will be clear and not detain us long, and we can send lookouts up on the heights to examine the sea and the coast outside.

In the mean time, we must be busy lest we lose the breeze.

You will attend to the signal for the court." At this order the two visitors got into their boats, and the Proserpine again filled.

The three vessels now made the best of their way toward the point of destination, anchoring off the town or village in the island of Capri, just as two bells struck.

Ten minutes later, the Proserpine fired a gun, and ran up the flag which denotes the sitting of a court-martial.
Although it has not been deemed necessary to relate them, the reader will understand that all the details required by the law had been observed as regards these trials; the promptitude of the proceedings being partly characteristic of the decision of the admiral, but more in consequence of a wish to use the charges against the delinquents as a means of seizing the true hero of our tale, the little Feu-Follet.