“In Amazon .”
“What, with you two?”
“No. It was afterwards. We were on Wild Cat Island then. We were marooned.”
“Who marooned you?”
“Titty did. She went off in Amazon , and left us to our cruel fate,” said Peggy. “That’s how the Swallows won the war.”
“But where were the others?”
“We were up the Amazon River, or sailing back from it,” said John.
“The lake seems to have been a lively place that night,” said Captain Flint. “And what did you hear, Able-seaman?”
“I heard people rowing in a boat. They came close past me.”
“And where were you?”
“I was anchored.”
“Look here,” said Captain John, “you’d better have a look at our chart. It shows just where she was.”
He ran into his tent, and came out with the new chart and pointed to the little anchor that marked the place where Titty had lain in Amazon off the north end of Cormorant Island.
Captain Flint looked at it.
“Did they pass close to you?” he asked.
“Very close,” said Titty.