Part 67 (2/2)
”Hurrah! That's all,” cried Mr Gurr ”Now, Mr Raystoke”
”No, sir, you”
”I say you”
”And I--”
Archy yielded to his superior in the expedition, crept out, and thefrom a couple of the men set him free, and he had only just joined the two boats' crews standing side by side on the shelf of rock, when the whole cliff seee they had left were soht out by an awful burst of fla down as if the end of the cliffs had cohty splash into the chas the cliff to crumble away beneath the, all was now still
Then, in thesilence, Ra before the powder caught;” and then, before any one could reply, the lad said quietly, ”I didn't want to be burnt to death Better go to prison for sot this rope Hadn't we better et down to the big shelf? I'll coet down?” said the , ”I can climb down; can't I, orficer?”
”Yes,” said Archy quietly ”He can get down You will not try to escape, will you, Raood?” said Ram sadly ”It's all over now”
The rope was reat ledge, Ra down soon after with the coiled-up rope about his shoulder and under one arot away if I wanted to,” he said, laughing frankly in Archy's face ”I say, I aot one of ood stuff!”
”Where's your mother?” asked Archy
”Up at the farger this o Your cutter was too quick for theet out to her, but the skipper sent a shot at us, and we came back here, only you saw us, and run us down”
”Where do you suppose your men are now?” asked Archy
”Don't know, and if I did, I wouldn't tell,” said the boy bluntly ”I say,” he added, after a pause, ”I give you a pretty good run last night, didn't I?”
”You young dog!” growled the master
”Well, if I hadn't, you'd have found the way in yonder, and I wasn't going to let you if I could help it”
”Ah, you'll be hung, sir”
”Get out!” cried Ra a boy like ?” said the boy after a pause, during which all had been watching the fla far overhead
”I don't knohy?” replied Archy
”Because she'll have to coh, and we shall have to slide down into a boat”
But the cutter was long For the lugger had escaped to Holland consequent upon the _White Hawk_ being so short-handed, and it was toward evening that she came close in to search for the crews, and all the party descended in safety to the boat, which rowed under in answer to the signalspistols