"That's what the wireless tells us.

We'll get short shrift if--my apparatus fails." "How do they make us out pirates ?" Bohannan ejaculated.

It was not fear that looked from his blue eyes, but a vast astonishment.

His ruddy face, amazed under the now strengthening light of day, brought a smile to the Master's lips.
"What else are we, my dear fellow ?" the Master queried.

"To seize a ship--a water-ship or one of the air matters nothing--and to overpower the crew, kill or wound a few, throw them outboard and sail away, comes pretty near constituting piracy.