I shall keep close to you, and you can hear me, and tell me how many there are." The Pluto was now edged away, till she was close to the other ship.

The crew, exulting in having turned the tables on the Genoese, and at the prospect of recovering another of the lost galleys, clustered in the waist, grasping their arms.

The ship was not perceived until she was within her own length of the other.

Then there was a sudden hail: "Where are you coming to?
Keep away, or you will be into us.

Why don't you show your light ?" Francis shouted back some indistinct answer.