However, I fancy it will blow up again in the morning." "Do you know whether she is faster than you are ?" James asked.
"There is not much difference," the captain replied.

"If the wind is strong, we have the legs of her; but in a light breeze, she is the fastest.

She has chased us half a dozen times already, but we have always given her the slip." "Then, even if she does run out to sea, as you say," James said, "we ought to be safe, as we should be a dozen miles or so along the coast." "Yes, but not that ahead of her," the captain answered, "for she would be so much to the seaward.

Still, that would be far enough; but she will begin to fire long before we are in range, and will bring any other king's ship within hearing down on us.

However, I daresay we shall give her the slip, as we have done before." The hours passed slowly.