CHAPTER VI.
CAPTAIN SPARKLE’S SECOND VICTIM.“Max,” said Nick, after a pause, during which he had been watching the maneuvers of the Harkaway as she came to her buoy on the anchorage, “I have not asked the question before, because I thought there was no need; but have you ever heard the suggestion that there was a pirate in this part of the world, before you met with your own experience?”
“Never.”
“It is a pretty sure thing, isn’t it, that if somebody else had run afoul of him as you did, you would have heard of it?”
“I think it is; unless some other fellow has been boarded who felt about as cheap as I do about it, and has resolved to keep it to himself until somebody else speaks. That is why I had made up my mind to let out the whole thing at the club meeting to-night.”
“But, even in
