He knows where he lives, and I expect we shall have him alongside in a few minutes." "Do you think that is good news or bad, sir ?" George Lechmere asked.
"I think that it is bad rather than good," Frank said.

"Before, it seemed to me that, whatever the craft was in which she was carried away, she would probably be transferred to the Phantom, which might be lying in Portland or in Dover, or be cruising outside the island, and if I had heard nothing of the Phantom I should have searched for her.

However, I suppose that the scoundrel thought that he could not trust a crew of Cowes men to take part in a business like this.

But we shall know more when Rawlins comes off." In half an hour the shore boat came alongside with Rawlins and a sailor with a Phantom jersey on.
"So you have all been paid off, my lad ?" Frank said to the sailor as he stepped on deck.
"Yes sir.

It all came sudden like.