Now what we have to do is to get away from this vessel; and then if she sails and leaves your father and Ben Greenway, it will be a good thing.

These fellows are rascals, and no honest person should have to do with them.

But now I must get out of sight, or somebody will come and spoil everything." Big Sam did come aft and told Kate he thought she would come to injury sitting out in the night air.

But she would not listen to him, and only asked him what time of night it was.

He told her that it was not far from nine, and that she would see her father very soon, and then he left her.
"It would have been a terrible thing if he had come at nine," she said to herself.