"I don't quite like the look of the weather," he remarked.  He had been a sailor, and had long been cruising about the islands.  He was therefore our pilot on the present occasion.  "Brand, can you make out the schooner anywhere?"  Cousin Silas replied that he could nowhere see her.  "Then something has delayed her at the station," observed Burkett. "As the tide is making in that direction, and the wind is fair, we'll run down there instead of crossing the channel to the point proposed."