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Before Vickers and his companions had recovered from the surprise which this extraordinary cool message had given them, the men had bundled Chatfield across the beach and into the boat and were pulling quickly back to the Pike. Audrey broke the silence with a ringing laugh. "Captain Andrius is certainly the perfection of polite pirates," she exclaimed. "More food more wraps and books and papers!
"Those are cliffs, surely," she said presently. "Hadn't we better go up the beach and see if we can't find some shelter until morning? Fortunately we're all warmly clad, and Andrius was considerate enough to throw rugs and things into the boat, as well as provisions. Come along! after all, we're not so badly off. And we have the satisfaction of knowing that we can keep Chatfield under observation.
'Robbed' 'maltreated' 'them as ought to have fallen in humble gratitude at his feet' 'vengeance' 'revenge' 'Marconi telegrams' 'ungrateful devils' ah, I see it! Chatfield had associates on the Pike probably the impostor himself and Andrius probably, too, he had property of his own, as you suggested to him, Copplestone. The whole gang was doubtless off with their loot to far quarters of the globe.
"You're wrong!" said Addie. "I'm not boasting I'm explaining. You ought to be obliged to me. And " "If Mrs. Andrius to give the lady her real name cares to unburden her secrets to us, I really don't see why we shouldn't listen to them, Mr. Petherton," observed Vickers. "It simplifies matters greatly." "That's what I say," agreed Addie.
But Audrey was evidently neither alarmed nor uneasy she nodded a ready assent to the Captain's proposal. "Thank you, Captain Andrius," she said coolly. "I know the two women. You may send one of them. Do what he suggests," she murmured, turning to Copplestone, who had moved close to her, "I'm not one scrap afraid of anything and it's only until tomorrow. He'll land us I'm sure of it."
There was nothing for it, then, but to follow Andrius to his own comfortable quarters. There, utterly ignoring the strange circumstances under which they met, he played the part of host with genuine desire to make his guests feel at ease, and when he showed them to their berths, a little later, he emphasized his assurance of their absolute safety and liberty.
And in the silence, broken only by the drip of water from the retreating oars, and by the scarcely-noticed ripple of the waves, Audrey voiced exactly what her two companions felt. "Andrius has kept his word and cheated us! We're stranded!" From somewhere out of the darkness came a groan deep and heartfelt, as if in entire agreement with Audrey's declaration.
Lawyers are guarded in their speech. Now we are alone we four. No one can hear anything we say. Tell me is that right what you said to me on deck, that the man who has called himself Marston Greyle is not so at all?" "Absolutely right," replied Vickers. "An impostor?" demanded Andrius. "He is!" "And never had any right to anything?" "No right whatever!"
However, I give my word that no harm shall come to you, that you shall be treated with every polite attention, and that you shall be landed." "When and where?" asked Vickers. "Tomorrow, certainly," replied Andrius. "As to where, I cannot exactly say. But where you will be in touch with shall we say civilization?"
"I fear it iss too late, Andrius," said Mynheer Jacobus Huysman, shaking his head. "If anyone could do it, it would be you, but doubtless Mynheer Hendrik hass not lost anything that he cannot replace, und it would be better for you, Andrius, to watch well here und guard against future attempts."
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