CHAPTER XI.
THE CAPTURE OF THE PIRATE CHIEF.“This is not precisely the costume in which I should have preferred to present myself to you, madame,” continued the detective, with a smile. “Bathing-suits were necessary, under the circumstances, inasmuch as we were obliged to swim out to the Shadow in order to get aboard of her at all. And, in order to relieve your mind, I will tell you how we did it: We came aboard at the moment when your husband—or his brother, for, like yourself, I have no idea which one of the Counts of Cadillac the gentleman who has just left you happens to be—followed by his men, boarded the Aurora. After that we hid beneath the table in the adjoining cabin while you went forward. When you did that, we came in here; and you know the rest.
“Now, madame, I dislike exceed
