make?" suggested Paul Drew, in low tones. "Aren't you going to look for your mother's relatives?"
"Yes, but I've got the lawyer doing that. He can accomplish all that I can, and more too, only not so quickly. It will be two weeks before he has any definite news for me, and, in the meanwhile, I don't want to stay tied up to a dock. I want to be doing something."
"That's Dick Hamilton, all the way through," murmured Henry Darby.
"So I proposed to Senor Alantrez that we give chase to these villains, and we're going to," went on the young millionaire. "We'll start as soon as we have taken some coal aboard and some more provisions, and that can't be until to-morrow morning, I'm sorry to say. But we are a faster boat than is the Princess, and we may be able to overtake her, even if she has a start of us."
"Where will you look for her?" asked Frank Bender.
"Oh, along the route to New York. I think they'll head for there, or, maybe they'll come back, when they find out their mistake."
"The saints grant that they may," murmured the father. "Oh, if I can see my boy again, unharmed, I will be happy forever!"
"We'll get him," promised Dick, firmly. "We'll get him, or twist off the propeller!"
Dick hurried all he could the coaling of the yacht, but even his utmost efforts were of little
