I will conduct you to a certain point on the island, where you will remain concealed among the bushes until I return to you." "And suppose you never return to us, Mister Gascoyne!" said Ole, who regarded every act of the pirate captain with suspicion.
"Then you will remain there till you are tired," answered Gascoyne, with some asperity, "and after that do what you please." "Well, well, I am in your power," retorted the obdurate Norseman; "make what arrangements you please.

I will carry them out until--" Here Ole thought fit to break off, and Gascoyne, without taking notice of the remark, went on in a few hurried sentences to explain as much of his plan as he thought necessary for the guidance of his suspicious ally.
This done, he led the whole party to the highest part of the island, and made them lie in ambush there while he went forward alone to reconnoiter.

The night was admirably suited to their purpose.

It was so dark that it was difficult to perceive objects more than a few yards off, and the wind howled so furiously among the palms that there was no danger of being overheard in the event of their speaking too loud or stumbling over fallen trees.
Gascoyne, who knew every rock and tree on the Isle of Palms, went rapidly down the gentle slope that intervened between him and the harbor in which the Foam lay at anchor.

Dark though it was, he could see the taper masts and yards of his vessel traced dimly against the sky.
The pirate's movements now became more cautious.