All I ask is to be permitted to make night-signals, for which I am prepared, as soon as the frigate approaches, and that you will throw all the delays, by means of forms and permits, in the way of the Frenchman's sailing, until to-morrow morning.

We will answer for the rest." "I should think there would be but little danger of the lugger's departing in the night, Signor Tenente, her commander rather expressing an intention of passing several days with us; and it is this ease and confidence of his which cause me to think that he cannot be the person you take him for.

Why should Raoul Yvard and le Feu-Follet come into Porto Ferrajo at all ?" "No one knows: it is the man's habit: and doubtless he has reasons for it.

'Tis said he has even been in at Gibraltar; and it is certain he has cut several valuable store-ships out of our convoys.

There is an Austrian loading with iron, I perceive, in the harbor; probably he is waiting for her to fill up, and finds it easier to watch her at an anchor than by lying outside." "You naval gentlemen have ways known only to yourselves; all this may be so, but it seems an enigma to me.