I suppose you have your eye on Mr.Lillyworth ?" "I have kept him in sight all the time.

He is on the quarter deck now, as he has been since all hands were called," replied Christy, who had not failed to look at him for a full minute since the discovery of the sail on the starboard.

"He seems to be perplexed by the situation, and his time for action, if he intends to act, has not yet come." "I don't see Pink Mulgrum anywhere about the deck." "I saw him a few minutes since," added Christy.

"He passed several times quite near Mr.Lillyworth, and very likely something was said between them; but they had no long talk." Christy had charged Dave to watch Mulgrum if he went below, and to follow him up closely; but the deaf mute had been on deck most of the time.

There was nothing that he could do, and nothing that the second lieutenant could do, to embarrass the operations of the ship while she remained at rest.