Chapter 7
Into the Trap
WHEN I REACHED the deck Captain Darnell had already spoken to one of the men on guard, quickly, and from the rail hailed the launch cruising alongside. The light from the yacht beat upon it as Barker, by his machine-gun, stood up and replied.
"There's been several canoes out," he called. "It seemed merely curiosity and they went away quickly enough when I showed them they must keep off. A while ago two of them came together and it took a little time to urge them to go. I didn't think much of that until the sentry up there called and signalled me to get round the other side. We got round at the bow, and when I spotted a canoe round close to the yacht and saw by something about it that it was one I had turned back a little while ago, I saw a trick had been played.
