Attwater looked steadily back over his shoulders as he sat; he did not once remove his eyes from the Farallone and the group on her quarter-deck beside the house, till his boat ground upon the pier.

Thence, with an agile pace, he hurried ashore, and they saw his white clothes shining in the chequered dusk of the grove until the house received him.
The captain, with a gesture and a speaking countenance, called the adventurers into the cabin.
'Well,' he said to Herrick, when they were seated, 'there's one good job at least.

He's taken to you in earnest.' 'Why should that be a good job ?' said Herrick.
'Oh, you'll see how it pans out presently,' returned Davis.

'You go ashore and stand in with him, that's all! You'll get lots of pointers; you can find out what he has, and what the charter is, and who's the fourth man--for there's four of them, and we're only three.' 'And suppose I do, what next ?' cried Herrick.

'Answer me that!' 'So I will, Robert Herrick,' said the captain.