I went over to the rail where all of the fellows were watching and there was a rowboat with two men in it, headed straight for us.

At the edge of the pier their captor pointed to a small rowboat in the water.

" The man gathered himself up, badly shaken, and holding his hand to his bleeding nose, made off to his rowboat at the float.

A group of pirates was gathered at the rail, staring at the rowboat through their glasses.

" A careful fellow was Mr. Hamilton Morris, and he well knew the value of a rowboat to a sea-going picnic-party.

We ran our rowboat on a sandy point jutting into the mouth of the creek, and took our way along the narrow strip of solid land that lay between river and marsh.

It was almost dark, when they set off in a small rowboat for Duck Island, and twenty minutes later Fernando was on his way to his farewell visit to Morgianna.