On the other hand, it would have been comparatively easy to manage it in the case of a yacht.

They had but to row alongside, to seize and gag them before they had time to utter a cry, and then to carry them below.

The Phantom is not here--at any rate, was not here this afternoon, but there is no reason why Carthew should not have chartered a yacht for the purpose.

Ask the skipper to come aft." "Captain," he said, when Hawkins came aft, "what men went ashore this afternoon ?" "Harris and Williams and Marvel, sir.

They went ashore in the dinghy, and Harris went to the doctor's for that medicine." "Ask them to come here." "Did anyone speak to you, Harris," he went on, as the three men came aft, "while you were ashore today ?--I mean anyone that you did not know." "No, sir," the man said, promptly.