Whatever the purposes of these people he was again upon the right trail.

The uplifted curtain was immediately lowered, and, if any signal had thus been conveyed, there was no other evidence visible.

A little later one of the two better dressed fellows loafing on the pier, a rather heavily built man, with closely clipped red moustache, and a scar over one eye, slowly crossed the deck, and entered the cabin.

He came forth again a moment later, asked some question of the workmen below and then clambered back carelessly over the rail, joining his companion on the pier.
"A half hour yet; it was quite a job the boy's had, but they are making time.

Come over here a minute." They walked forward, out of earshot from where West sat on a bench in the sun.