I ought to have thought of that before; those villains would never have deserted the yacht in mid-lake, and taken to the boat.

They must have known they could make shore easily." Her glance searched the face of the bluff, which with each moment was becoming more distinctly visible.
"You don't suppose they landed here, do you ?" "Not very likely; even if they did they are not here now.

They would have made it before daylight this morning.

All the time we have been drifting out there they had to get away in.

There is no danger that Hogan is anywhere along this shore now." "You think he and--and those others have all gone ?" "Yes; why should they hang around here?
The last idea in their heads would be the possibility of our ever drifting in alive.