Now one of these trying to slip along shore might just serve as a bait for him, and then he would be famously hooked." "I think I have it, Winchester.

You understand; we have not yet been seen to communicate with the town; and luckily our French colors have been flying all the morning Our head, too, is in-shore, and we shall drift so far to the eastward in a few minutes as will shut in our hull, if not our upper sails, from the lugger where she now lies.

As soon as this is done you shall be off with forty picked men for the shore.
Engage a felucca and come out stealing along the rocks as close as you can, as if distrusting _us_.

In due time we will chase you in the boats, and then you must make for the lugger for protection as fast as you can, when, betwixt the two, I'll answer for it, you get this Master Yvard, by fair means or foul." Winchester was delighted with the scheme, and in less than five minutes orders were issued for the men to be detailed and armed.

Then a conference was held as to all the minor arrangements; when, the ship having become shut in from the lugger by the promontory, as expected, the boats departed.