After searching in every direction, he discovered the boat, which was pulled by two men, with a third in the stern-sheets.

He indicated the position of it to the major, and gave him the glass.
"That's Dallberg, without any doubt; but he must be five miles off.

He can't reach the steamer for a long time," said the major, when he had examined the boat.

"But we shall be no better off than we are now when she gets here, for not one of those in it is a sailor." Christy was not a little interested in the situation; for he thought his father must have gone on board of the Bellevite, or she would not have changed her position.

It was all a mystery to him as well as to the commandant of Fort Gaines, and the boat in the distance had been to the shore for the purpose of investigating it.
He had an idea in his head, and he continued to examine the interior of the pilot-house till he found a number of paper rolls in a drawer, which looked very much like local charts of the bay.