Part 21 (1/2)
”Why, anybody would guess that”
”P'raps they would and p'raps they wouldn't, my lad; but, of course, you don't know that there's the little Revenue cutter that's looking out for any little bit of s, Eben! Of course I knew”
”Yes, of course you did, lass, haven't you!”
”No; but I use ht; and when thelass out to see what they were?”
”Yes; directly”
”And then you went down to your boat-hole and ran over here as fast as you could?”
”Yes; but it wasn't fast, for the wind kept dropping But how did you know this?”
”Never you mind how I knowed You knowed that ht”
”That I didn't,” cried Aleck ”What for--to run a cargo?”
”Never you mind what for, my lad You knoe'd come”
”That I didn't I hadn't the least idea you had But how did you know I got out the glass to have a look at the vessels? Bah! You couldn't know if you were over here No one sawIt's impossible”
”Is it?” said the , of course, eh, and nobody left behind to look out for squalls and run across to tell us to look out when they see the wind changing?
So, you see, clever as you think yourself, you're found out, my lad
Now do you see?”
”I see that you're on the wrong tack, Eben,” said the lad, scornfully, ”and leta lot of nonsense I don't see why I should tell you It's absurd to accusea spy and informer Do you suppose we up at the Den want to be on bad terms with all the fishermen and--and people about?”
”You mean to say you haven't put the boat's crew yonder up to taking me and my mates?”
”Of course I do Why, I haven't even spoken to the officer, only to the rowled the ly
”If you think a press-gang is likely to coet hold of you and your mates, why don't you slip off into the hills for a bit?”
The man stared, and his features relaxed a little and a little ht Aleck by the sleeve
”Look here, Master Aleck,” he said; ”the captain yonder's a gentleood friends, but he never did anything to get any of us took”
”Of course he didn't”