"We will follow Kenwardine. He will be more or less at our mercy on British soil, and, if it seems needful, there is a charge you can bring against him. He stole some army papers." Dick started. "How did you hear of that?" "Clever men are sometimes incautious, and he once spoke about it to his daughter," Don Sebastian answered with a shrug. "Our antagonists are not the only people who have capable spies." The intrigue and trickery he had become entangled in inspired Dick with disgust, but he admitted that one could not be fastidious in a fight with a man like his antagonist. "Very well," he said, frowning, "I'll go; but it must be understood that when he's beaten you won't decide what's to be done with the man without consulting me." Don Sebastian bowed. "It is agreed. One can trust you to do nothing that would injure your country. But we have some arrangements to make." Shortly afterwards Dick left the wine-shop, and returning to the camp went to see Stuyvesant. "I want to go away in a few days, perhaps for a fortnight, but I'd like it understood that I'd been sent down the coast in the launch," he said. "As a matter of fact, I mean to start in her." "Certainly. Arrange the thing as you like," Stuyvesant agreed. Then he looked at Dick with a twinkle. "You deserve a lay-off and I hope you'll enjoy it." Dick thanked him and went back to his shack, where he found Jake on the verandah. "I may go with the launch, after all, but not to Coronal," he remarked. "Ah!" said Jake, with some dryness. "Then you had better take me; anyhow, I'm coming." "I'd much sooner you didn't." "That doesn't count," Jake replied. "You're getting after somebody, and if you leave me behind, I'll give the plot away. It's easy to send a rumor round the camp." Dick reflected. He saw that Jake meant to come and knew he could be obstinate. Besides, the lad was something of a seaman and would be useful on board the launch, because Dick did not mean to join the steamer Kenwardine traveled by, but to catch another at a port some distance off. "Well," he said, "I suppose I must give in." "You've got to," Jake rejoined, and added in a meaning tone: "You may need a witness if you're after Kenwardine, and I want to be about to see fair play." "Then you trust the fellow yet?" "I don't know," Jake answered thoughtfully. "At first, I thought Kenwardine great, and I like him now. He certainly has charm and you can't believe much against him when he's with you; but it's somehow different at a distance. Still, he knew nothing about the attacks on you. I saw that when I told him about them." "You told him!" Dick exclaimed. "I did. Perhaps it might have been wise----"