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Waving his hand to Peterson, who was in the distance, Dick followed the lame man and sat down on a bench in front of the shanty, the odd individual seating himself on a stool opposite. "Want to find Captain Gus Langless, eh?" said the lame man, closing one eye suggestively. "Yes." "I read of the case in the papers. He's a bad un, eh?" "What do you know of the case?" demanded Dick impatiently.
"What do you intend to do with us?" questioned Dick curiously. "You'll have to ask your friend Arnold Baxter about that." "He is no friend of ours!" cried Tom. "He is our worst enemy and you know it." "If you behave yourself I'll see to it that no harm befalls you," continued Captain Langless. "I'm sorry I mixed up in this affair, but now I am in it I'm going to see it through."
If not, we wouldn't have been out in our yacht/ "Where were you bound?" "That was our business, Baxter." "Oh, if you don't want to tell me, you needn't," growled the bully, and walked away. "I'll wager he and his father have had a row with Captain Langless," observed Dick. "Otherwise he wouldn't be half so meek."
When they came up they heard the mate yelling frantically to those in the boat, who did not at once comprehend the turn affairs had taken. But when they saw the boys they began to row toward them with all swiftness. "We must recapture them," cried Arnold Baxter. "If they get away, our cake will be dough." "Then row as hard as you can," replied Captain Langless.
At once a wordy war ensued between the Baxters and the owner of the schooner. What it was about Dick and Peterson could not make out, although they realized that it concerned Tom and Sam. "Your men are a set of doughheads," cried Arnold Baxter. "They are to be trusted with nothing." "Never mind, we'll come out ahead anyway," retorted Captain Langless.
For the present the captain was not in sight, having retired to the stern to consult Arnold Baxter upon several points. They remained on deck until noon, when the cook called them to dinner in the cabin. They found they were to dine with Captain Langless. "I asked the Baxters to join us, but they declined," he observed, as they sat down. "Now I am not so high-toned."
They had felt that the authorities might follow the Peacock, but how would anybody ever discover them in such a lonely place as this? But there was no help for it, and on they went until Captain Langless called a sudden halt. They had gained a cliff running out from one end of the hill. The rocks arose in a sheer wall, thirty or more feet in height.
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