"There is the canoe in which we came ashore, Lieutenant Lonley, and you can use that." The privateersman sprang into the boat, shoved it off, and pulled in the direction from which the appeal came.

He disappeared in the fog in a moment; but a little later was seen again approaching the shore.

He had not taken the sufferer into the boat, but he had clung to it.

As he got upon his feet, Christy saw that there were two of them, for one helped the other up the beach.
"What does this mean ?" demanded Lonley, very much excited.

"Have you run away from the others ?" "No, sir; but we were beaten in the fight, our boats captured, and all hands taken prisoners except us two," replied the uninjured of the two men.
Lieutenant Lonley, whatever his views of the morality of lying to the enemy, uttered an exclamation which grated very harshly on the ears of Lieutenant Passford.