The decks and fittings would tell their story at once.

Do you know her name ?" "I don't know much about her," Frank said, "but a craft of that kind sailed from Cowes a day or two before I started, and, as I believe, for the Mediterranean.

Being about our own size, and heavily sparred for a schooner, I was rather curious to know if I had beaten her.

We did not make her out as we came along." "You must have passed her in the night, I should say, unless, as is likely enough, she did not put in, but kept eastward." As Frank had touched at Gibraltar three times before, the place had no novelty for him.

He, however, went ashore at once to make arrangements for filling up again with water.