south.'

'And all this time, when you were letting me down--By the way, how
did you do it?'

'Lifted a plank in the floor.'

'When you were letting me down, and towing me out, and calculating
chances, what was I, may I ask?'

'O, just a body asleep, that was all; your punch was drugged, and well
done too! Of course I could not have you at the castle; that was
plain.'

They flew on a while longer, and then veered short to the left. 'This
boat sails well,' said Waring, 'and that is your skiff behind I see.
Did you whistle for it that night?'

'I let it out by a long cord while you went after the game bag, and the
shore-end I fastened to a little stake just under the edge of the
water on that long slope of beach. I snatched it up as I ran out, and
kept hauling in until I met it. You fell off that ledge, didn't you? I
calculated on that. You see I had found out all I wanted to know; the
only thing I feared was some plan for settling along that shore, or
exploring it for something. It is my weak side; if you had climbed up
one of those tall trees you might have caught sight of the
castle,--that is, if there was no fog.'

'Will the fog come up now?'