"Wait until the boat comes in, and then we will know all about it .-- Here, Cheditafa," said she, "you and Mok go out into the water and help run that boat ashore as soon as it is near enough." It was a large boat containing five men, and when it had been run up on the sand, and its occupants had stepped out, the man at the tiller, who proved to be the second mate of the bark, came forward and touched his hat.

As he did so, no sensible person could have imagined that he had accidentally discovered them.

His manner plainly showed that he had expected to find them there.

The conviction that this was so made the blood run cold in Edna's veins.

Why had not the captain come himself?
The man in command of the boat advanced toward the two ladies, looking from one to the other as he did so.