If that were so, I wonder why they have not sooner been this way, looking for the wreck, or, at least, for other unfortunates who may have reached shore.

I suppose, if they are making this sort of a search, they went southward.

But all that, of course, depends upon whether they really saw Davis and the two other men.

If they did not, they could have no reason for supposing there were any shipwrecked people on the coast." "But that thought is of no use to us," said Miss Markham, her eyes upon the ground, "for, of course, they will be coming after the black man.
Captain," she continued quickly, "is there anything I can do?
I can fire a gun." He looked at her for a moment.

"That will not be necessary," he said.
"But there is something you can do.