n't put them all in jail. How about
this man they tell me you've been keeping prisoner?" continued Uncle
Dick.

"Please, sir," said Rob, earnestly, "don't be hard with him. I'm not
sure that we understand all about the way these natives think. He tried
to get away from us, and we tied him up because we needed him as a
pilot. We didn't know the way back to town, you see, because when we
came down the coast it was all in a fog and we couldn't see anything."

"Rather risky pilot, from what I hear," commented Uncle Dick.

"I believe he was more scared than anything else," went on Rob. "He
never really made us any trouble, and he did a lot of work for us for
which we have promised him pay. We've got to keep our word to all these
people, you know. But, if you please, we'd rather pay money to them than
to give up our rifles; and we'd like Jesse's rifle back."

"That will be easy," said Uncle Dick. "All these people will count
themselves fortunate. But what a lot of them we'll have to ship back
down the coast to Old Harbor--I suppose we'll have to charter a schooner
for that!"

"I say, Uncle Dick," broke in John, eagerly, "if you send a schooner
down, _couldn't we boys go along with her_?"

Uncle Dick looked at him quizzically for a moment.

"You could not!" he answered, briefly.

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