The report made the ledge tremble under us.
"Hadn't we better get out of sight ?" Donovan said.

"They may see us, and send a boat over here." "No danger of that, I think," replied Raed.

"They want to run the schooner down, and wouldn't care to leave their boat so far behind.
This strong north-west wind favors them.

Still I don't think they are gaining much.

They're not going over ten or eleven knots.