You stay here on ze deck and vait till I vant you-- ven ze boat come back.

Dat is vy I show you how go avay ze bucket.
Look now again." One of the boats was ready, and two men in her.

The rope that held her to the side was cast off, and in an instant she glided away across the pool, towards an opening that had been unnoticed before, was deftly steered, and passed out of sight.
"Why, she must come out where we saw the water rushing at the other end of the rock!" thought Vince; and he stood watching while the other boats left the side of the lugger, to be cleverly guided to the same spot, and glide out of sight directly.
A feeling of helplessness came over the boys as they saw all this, and realised that now they were, beside the captain and a man who kept going in and out of a low, hutch-like place forward, the only occupants of the vessel; and that if their captor had any particular designs upon them, this would be the likely time for their happening.

But they now had proof that this was not going to be the case, for the Frenchman took no further heed to them.

He went to the cabin-hatch and descended, leaving them with the deck to themselves.
"What do you think of it now ?" asked Mike dolefully.
"I don't know," said Vince, gazing up at the towering rocks, dotted with yellow ragwort and sea-pink, by which they were surrounded; "but it's a change.