It is true that oil could be brought into that point, and stored there, and no one but the keeper be the wiser.

And it is true that the _Acquitania_ is at this moment in this part of the Mediterranean steaming east for Salonika with six thousand men on board.

Let's trail our coat a bit!" said Hillyard, and the captain with a laugh gave an order to the signal boy by his side.
The boy ran aft and in a few seconds the red ensign fluttered up the flagstaff, and drooped in the still air.

But even that provocation produced no result.

For an hour and a half the _Dragonfly_ steamed backwards and forwards in front of the cape.
"No good!" Hillyard at last admitted.