The long, large-leafed vines and vigorous castor-oil plants were peculiarly useful at this crisis.

Trailing over the low freeboard into the water, they screened the launch so completely that Watts and the Norwegian, perched high above the creek at a distance of three hundred yards, could only guess her whereabouts when the search-light made the Gomez plantation light as day.
The cruiser evidently discovered traces of the _Andromeda_ on Grand-pere.

She stopped an appreciable time, and created a flutter in many anxious hearts by a loud hoot of her siren.

It did not occur to anyone at the moment that she was signaling to the troops bivouacked on South Point.

De Sylva was the first to read this riddle aright.