I should not have so much cared if the officers of the gaol knew who you were; but I can see that if there is treachery at work this would defeat your object altogether.

What do you suppose this rascal Greek can be intending ?" "That I cannot say, Sir John.

He may be trying to get an exact plan of the fortifications, or he may be arranging some plan of communication by which, in case of siege, news of our condition and of the state of our defences may be conveyed to the Turkish commander." By this time they had reached the port, and embarked at once on a trading vessel belonging to one of the merchants, from whom Sir John had readily obtained her use for a day or two.

Her sails were hoisted at once, and she rowed out from the port.

Having proceeded some three or four miles, they lowered her sails, and lay to in the course a galley making for the port would take.