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The more I thought the less inclined I felt to agree with Mrs. Ascher. It seemed to me that if I took to paralysing coastguards and reducing policemen to helplessness there would be considerably more risk of shooting than if I stayed quietly in London. The proper leaders of the people proper though perhaps not natural are the politicians.
For, wishing to have word with the Governor, and no one the wiser, I brought the boat to shore down yonder, under the Keg of Butter, and there the coastguards have found it, and are waiting by it to catch me, and what answer to give them I can't think, nor how to account for myself. Seemin' to me they're everywhere, and all around me in the darkness!" Mr. Rogers broke into a laugh.
Moreover, the bar where earlier in the evening it was pleasant to lie and pluck the yellow sea-poppies, listening to tales of wrecks and buried treasure and bygone smuggling, was no place at all in the chill of twilight; moreover, when the bar had been left behind and before the coastguards' cottages came into sight there was a two-mile stretch of lonely cliff that was a famous haunt of ghosts.
The coastguards were embarking and the Lord Proprietor, just arrived upon the scene, was running about as Sergeant Archelaus put it afterwards, "like a paper man in a cyclone" calling out the names of volunteers for the lifeboat.
He often came to our house during his stay in the locality, and one of the first things he told my parents was that in his younger days he was a smuggler, and had had many encounters with Deal coastguards.
But there was more than one place to go in that wonderful week; more than ships to see if one would know something of the intricate, busy world of the Admiralty's work, which makes coastguards a part of its personnel. The transition is less sudden if we begin with a ride in an open car along the coast of Scotland.
But when the constabulary are no longer engaged in the direct protection of British interests the little force of thirteen hundred coastguards must prove quite insufficient, and I doubt if even thirteen thousand would prove an adequate force. The Irish people will have no interest in protecting the British Government. Their interest will be exactly the other way.
The coastguards manned their boat and rowed off to a gunboat in the harbour to ask for some marines; and the moment this was known to the besiegers they dispersed.
Force had at last succeeded in stifling them. A profound quiet reigned for a time throughout France. The country had become a circle, closely watched by armed men by dragoons, infantry, archers, and coastguards beyond which the Huguenots could not escape without running the risk of the prison, the galley, or the gibbet.
Here, as in many other places that I visited, the natives themselves were not the ones discreditable to the country. Early in the day a despatch came from the port captain of Montevideo, commanding the coastguards to render the Spray every assistance.
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