Chapter 31 THE FISH.

"I have rather a personal question to ask you, Captain Brown," Charley said, as the launch ploughed her way through the glowing water.

"Let's hear it," said the fisherman.

The lad hesitated. "It sounds rather impudent, but I want to know just how good a friend you are to Hunter and his gang?"

"Can't say that I am a friend of his at all," a