Chapter 36

“We’ll have to see what can be done. And now, in regard to the _Red Moon_, we must be very quiet and very inconspicuous in our activities and investigations. A good glass from Tiger Island would inform Welper concerning what we are about. That wouldn’t do, would it?” The girl shook her head: “It wouldn’t do at all,” she repeated; “we are too remote from civilisation. If we did discover the _Red Moon_, and found gold in her—and if those men at The Gay-Cat learned of it—they could come over and kill us all. Who would…