Chapter XIV
MILLER PREPARES TO FIGHT
Miller stared after the oystermen until the marsh grass had hidden everything but the sail which scarcely stirred in the light breeze.
He walked closer then, but the bivouac disclosed no more than it had at first. So he turned and went back through the dunes to the Dart.
What he had seen added materially to his worry. He felt he had made a mistake in urging the girl to return to the sands. It was not safe for her to cross at the upper end of the inlet since these men were so near. She had intimated, however, that the excursion was a common one for her. Perhaps, then, the oystermen never ventured nearer the evil island than their camp. Yet that view would presuppose fear, must definitely remove them as a factor in the situation.
When he had reach
