Great bluff, wasn't it?
What do you suppose Mr .---- will think ?" "But if they should insist upon holding us till morning," she cried, on the verge of tears, trouble looming up like a mountain.
"They won't dare do that.

They'll probably send us to a hotel with a plain-clothes man unless we give bond, but that's all.

I'll try another bluff and see how it works.

There's no use kicking about it.

We're not in a position to stir up much of a row, you see, dear." He tried it when the captain came in unexpectedly a few minutes later, and with the most gratifying results.