There are thousands such in the Pacific that are
visited by vessels scarce once in a century. There they will
hold us until they can proceed with the ship to some point
where they can get into communication with their agents in
the States. When the ransom is paid over to these agents they
will return for us and land us upon some other island where
our friends can find us, or leaving us where we can divulge
the location of our whereabouts to those who pay the ransom."
The girl had been looking intently at Mr. Divine during
their conversation.
"They cannot have treated you very badly, Larry," she said.
"You are as well groomed and well fed, apparently, as ever."
A slight flush mounting to the man's face made the girl
wonder a bit though it aroused no suspicion in her mind.
"Oh, no," he hastened to assure her, "they have not treated
me at all badly--why should they? If I die they can collect no
ransom on me. It is the same with you, Barbara, so I think
you need apprehend no harsh treatment."
"I hope you are right, Larry," she said, but the hopelessness
of her air rather belied any belief that aught but harm could
come from captivity with such as those who officered and
manned the Halfmoon.
"It seems so remarkable," she went on, "that you should be
a prisoner upon the same boat.
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