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He had played a winning stroke, boldly, under the public eye: and a hundred comments of the sightseers, as he steered through the press of boats to the Committee Ship, testified to his success. Though he could not hear, he felt them. "Well!" "Proper cuttin'-out expedition, as you might call it." "And she with a great bunch o' ribbons pinned on her, that no-one shan't miss the meanin' of it."
"You saw nothing?" "Not so much as a shadder, sir." "A lost boat, likely ship-wrecked sailors adrift in the fog; perhaps our other quarter-boat. No one hailed them?" "No, sir; I told the men ter keep still till I called you. It might be a cuttin'-out party; this ain't no coast fer any honest sailors ter be huggin' up to, an' I didn't like that feller talkin' Spanish."
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