Some of them may have been paid off, for she has not been raced since Ryde.

In any case, I want two of the men to go ashore, the first thing in the morning, and hang about all day, if necessary, in hopes of finding one of the Phantom's crew.
If they do find one, bring him off at once, and tell him that he will be well paid for his trouble.
"By the way, you may as well ask Harris what the gentleman was like who spoke to him at the landing place." He walked slowly backwards and forwards with George Lechmere, without exchanging a word, until in five minutes Hawkins returned.
"It was a clean-shaven man who spoke to Harris, sir; he judged him to be about forty.

He wore a sort of yachting dress, and he was rather short and thin.

About the other matter Rawlins says that he noticed when he was ashore yesterday two of the Phantom's men strolling about.

Being a Cowes man himself, he knew them both, but as they were not alone he just passed the time of day and went on without stopping." "Does he know where they live?
I don't think it at all likely they would be on leave now, or that he would find either of them at home tomorrow morning; but it is possible that he might do so.