I arranged with Captain Chantor to pick us up to-morrow night at about the point where we embarked in the boat.

In the mean time he will sail around the islands, though the Chateaugay will not come near enough to be seen from the shore." "What will you do with the boat while we are absent ?" "Leave it where it is." While they were talking, an old negro came down the pier, and very politely saluted the strangers.

He appeared to come from a small house a short distance from the shore, and passed along to a boat which lay near the Eleuthera.
"Is that your boat ?" asked the detective, calling him back.
"Yes, sir; I am a fisherman, though I've got the rheumatism, and don't go out much; but I have to go to-day, for we have nothing to eat in the house," replied the negro, whose language was very good.
"What is your name ?" "Joseph, sir." "Do you speak French ?" "Oh, no, sir!" exclaimed Joseph.

"I don't speak anything but plain English; but I used to work sometimes for a French gentleman that kept a boat at this pier, six or seven years ago." "What was his came ?" asked the detective, who had had a suspicion from the first that he knew the man, though he had changed a great deal as he grew older.
"Mounseer Gillflower," replied Joseph; "and he was very kind to me." "I am a Frenchman, Joseph; and, if you don't want to go fishing, I will employ you to take care of my boat, and carry my valise to a hotel," continued the detective, as he handed an English sovereign to him, for he had taken care to provide himself with a store of them in New York.
"Thank you, sir; but I can't change this piece," protested Joseph very sadly.
"I don't want you to change it; keep the whole of it." "God bless you forever and ever, Mounseer!" exclaimed the fisherman.
"I haven't had a sovereign before since Mounseer Gillflower was here.
I am a very poor man, and I can't get any work on shore." Probably, like the rest of his class, he was not inclined to work while he had any money.

He promised to take good care of the Eleuthera, and he asked no troublesome questions.