I watched their greeting, and her's was not that of love.

If this be true, we strike at once, while it is safe." "Here, you mean--tonight ?" "And why not here, and tonight?
Is there a better spot or time?
With another night the sloop will be far up the Bay, while now from where we are anchored, we could be beyond the Capes by daybreak, with the broad ocean before us.

We are five--six with the Senor--and our ship lies but a short league away, ready for sea.

There are only four men on the sloop, with some servants above--spiritless fellows.

Why else should he have signaled our coming, unless there was work to do?
That will be the plan, to my notion--the money and the girl in one swoop; then a quick sail to the southward.