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"I forced the skipper to go to sea, and as soon as he had a good excuse his tow-rope parted, besides which the last barge went adrift from the rest. Her hawser, however, wasn't broken. It was slipped from the craft she was made fast to. Then, though the tug's engines were out of order, she steamed to leeward very fast and, I firmly believe, hasn't gone back to Adexe."
But since it had been given out that he was going to Coronal, he must keep near the coast until he passed Adexe. This was necessary, because Kenwardine would not risk a visit to Jamaica, which was British territory, if he thought he was being followed. "We'll make it all right if the weather keeps fine," he answered. They passed Adexe in the afternoon and boldly turned seawards across a wide bay.
There was something in her manner that hinted that it had not been easy to send him away. Yet he saw she could be firm and thought it wise to follow her lead. "Then your father has been occupied lately," he remarked. "Yes; he is often away. He goes to Adexe and is generally busy in the evenings. People come to see him and keep him talking in his room.
"Her model's a pretty common one for big passenger craft," Jake remarked to Dick as they went up the mole. "Still, the thing's curious. She wasn't at Adexe and she hasn't been here. She certainly passed us, steering for the land, and I don't see where she could have gone." Dick began to talk about something else, but next morning asked Stuyvesant for a day's leave.
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