The imagination and resource which Captain Blood had detected in the fellow soon suggested a course.
Cursing in his soul, and even before the anchor was weighed, the association into which he had entered, he was already studying ways of evasion.

What Cahusac implied was true: Blood would never suffer violence to be done in his presence to a Dutchman; but it might be done in his absence; and, being done, Blood must perforce condone it, since it would then be too late to protest.
Within the hour the Arabella and La Foudre were beating out to sea together.

Without understanding the change of plan involved, Captain Blood, nevertheless, accepted it, and weighed anchor before the appointed time upon perceiving his associate to do so.
All day the Dutch brig was in sight, though by evening she had dwindled to the merest speck on the northern horizon.

The course prescribed for Blood and Levasseur lay eastward along the northern shores of Hispaniola.

To that course the Arabella continued to hold steadily throughout the night.