He glanced aside to his bureau, whereon lay a letter written by Paul Bendish at Oxford.
"He probably has a larger acquaintance with the queer birds of the Mediterranean ports than any one else in England.

But he does not seem to be aware of it.

But if you persist in sitting quiet his knowledge will trickle out." Commodore Graham persisted, and facts concerning Jose Medina began to trickle out.

Jose's father had left him, the result of a Spanish peasant's thrift, a couple of thousand pesetas.

With this Jose Medina had gone to Gibraltar, where he bought a felucca, with a native of Gibraltar as its nominal owner; so that Jose Medina might fly the flag of Britain and sleep more surely for its protection.