Shadow 241 - Vengeance Bay 03-01-42, The by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street and Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“IT’S not safe for me to start out with Gleer,” declared Jack testily, “until I’ve done something about that chap Bron. I don’t like having him around!”

“But, Jack!” exclaimed Judy. “He was here at my island when the trouble started at your cabin.”

“So he says, Judy, but who can prove it?”

“Margo can, and has. She told me they were in the cottage when the two men on the Spray came to say that they heard shooting.”

Jack gave a grunt.

“Funny thing,” he said, “your friend Margo Lane showing up here just when Bron did, right after I wired Gleer to help me hunt for treasure.”

Indignation made Margo forget the cold water. She wanted to come out from under the dock and give Jack a piece of her mind. It wasn’t necessary. Judy did it instead, and in very caustic terms. By the time Judy finished, Margo had placed her at the head of her best friends, and Jack was making every sort of apology.

“All right, all right!” he exclaimed. “Margo is on the level. She couldn’t have known that Bron was coming here. But maybe Bron found out that she was coming here, and tagged along. Look out there in the bay.”

Judy looked, and so did Margo, though she was slapped in the face by a wavelet for her temerity. Brushing the salt water from her smarting eyes, she heard Judy say:

“Why, it’s the Spray, coming over here!”

“Exactly,” agreed Jack, “because he saw me start out in Cap’s old tub and wants to butt in again. I’ll fix him!”

Fix Bron, Jack did, after the Spray tied up at Judy’s dock. The Petrel came back, and tied up on the other side, which placed Margo between a veritable wall of ships, but she still listened to what was said.

Vedo Bron was anxious to learn more about Massaquoit Bay. He had brought along some navigation charts and was questioning Jack Melford about them. Margo could tell that Bron was trying to lead the conversation up to the matter of the cavern that adjoined Pirate Cove, by pointing out what appeared to be an odd feature of the chart.

“It looks almost like a cave, Melford.”

“It is a cave,” put in Jack obligingly. “They say old Blackbeard, the pirate, buried his loot there. You ought to go into the place, Bron, and have a look around.”

“Could I make it with the Spray?”

“Certainly, but you’ll have to go in at low tide to get under the arches. Don’t stay too long, or you’ll have trouble getting out and will have to wait for the next low tide.”

“And how soon is the next low tide?”

“In about half an hour. I’d start now, if I were you, Bron.”

The Spray purred away. Margo heard Judy speak to Jack in an undertone, so that Gleer and Sorbenson wouldn’t hear.

“Why, Jack!” Judy was reproving. “Bron will never make it against the outcoming tide.”

“Of course he will,” began Jack glibly. “His boat has more power than Cap’s old plugger.”

“But it’s Bron’s first trip into the cove -“

Jack interrupted with a laugh:

“All right, Judy.

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