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Captain Carboneer shouted his orders, and the man got a new hold, and this time it was at the painter of the boat in which Sampson had brought off Mr. Watts and the ladies. It had been forgotten in the excitement of the moment, but the rope afforded a good hold to several men who had grasped it.
"Answer him, Corny," said Captain Carboneer, in a low voice. "Say 'yes, and ask who it is that speaks." "Yes," repeated Corny. "Who are you?" "Sampson," replied the man on board of the steamer. "And who is with him," added the captain. "Are you alone on board?" demanded Corny, varying his speech a little from his instructions.
Whatever he was thinking about, he was greatly agitated, and Captain Carboneer walked in the direction of the road, half a mile from the river. He had no time to consider the matter: he must yield at once, or abandon the scheme. "I will do anything you ask, Captain Carboneer!" he shouted, forgetting, in his excitement, the demand for secrecy.
"We have not above half a dozen trained sailors who know how to handle a cutlass on board, and all the others will be needed in working the steamer. The coal-passers would be good for nothing in repelling boarders." "You think Captain Carboneer would board the steamer, do you?" "I have no doubt he would. He is a naval officer, and he knows what he is about.
If they are worried about you, they will get over it in the morning when they find the steamer is missing," said Captain Carboneer, with something like a chuckle in his tones when he pictured the surprise of the "Yankees" in making the discovery that the Bellevite had taken to herself wings, and sped on her way to the South. "I don't think they will worry about me," added Corny, laughing.
"We are to get under way early in the morning, and if father gets home he will start the steamer as soon as he comes. He went to the city this evening, and probably he will bring the order with him," continued Corny, making use of the information he had obtained in the house. "Where is this long gun, my man?" asked Captain Carboneer, taking a measure from his pocket.
"We are getting into a disagreement at the very first step of our enterprise." "I don't know you, Captain Carboneer, but I wish to be understood as meaning every word I have said; and I will wreck this enterprise, if I am shot for it, rather than allow my cousin to be carried off in connection with it," protested Corny stoutly.
I think it must be the naval officer whom Captain Carboneer called Haslett; but I have not seen him except as he was shinning up the painter of the boat. You can go on deck if you like, mother and Florry, or you may come with me into the pilot-house," added Christy.
"Call it what you like." "All this is absurd, Mulgate," interposed Captain Carboneer. "Without my resources, you can do nothing at all, and it would be foolish for you to attempt the capture of the vessel. You are not a sailor or a navigator, and you could do nothing with the vessel if you succeeded in getting her to sea."
"We have two men on board beside ourselves, and we can hardly expect to hold our own against fifty." "Who is this Captain Carboneer?" "I saw him at Nassau, and he looked like a man of decision and character. I don't know anything about him, but I have no doubt he is a naval officer, both from the circumstances and from what I heard. I should say that he knows what he is about.
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