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Two others can watch if the coast's clear while I get down and across the paddocks, and once we're at the corner of the road we're safe." It seemed feasible enough, and in a very short time the preparations were all made.
Give me your patent leathers, and I'll fill them with stones and sink them in the pond. I'm doing the same with mine. Here's a brown pair apiece, and we mustn't let the grass grow under them if we're to get to the station in time for the early train while the coast's still clear."
Zeb heaved a great sigh like a sob; but only said: "Wait a second while I see that the coast's clear." In less than three minutes the stranger was packed under the evil-smelling weed, drawing breath with difficulty, and listening, when the jolting allowed, to Zeb's voice as he encouraged the mare.
"Here you are! there's lots more of 'em. We're in luck. Look alive. The coast's clear, I suppose?" "Hall right," said the dark figure in a hoarse whisper, which terminated in a low chuckle, as Long Orrick placed the keg innocently in the arms of old Coleman and returned to the boat for more!
"Now," said he, going in, "the coast's clear; I have sent that impertinent jade out to the garden, and as the back gate is open the gardener's men are wheeling out the rubbish and they are now at dinner I say, as the back gate is open, it's ten to one but she'll scour the country. Now, Miss Folliard, go immediately to your room; as for this poor man, I will take care of him."
'In the roads outside didn't you see her? 'Wasn't looking. Her skipper's safe anyway; so's Böhme, so's the Tertium Quid, and so are the Kormoran's men. The coast's clear it's now or never. Once more we were traversing the long jetty and the silent streets, rain driving at our backs. We trod on air, I think; I remember no fatigue.
She succeeded in summoning up a faint smile. "Then that coast's clear," said Sandy. "Who else? There's Roger. What shall you do if he comes over to-day?" "He won't. Lady Gertrude had a heart attack yesterday, and as Isobel Carson's away, Roger, of course, has to stay with his mother. He 'phoned Nan last night."
"Do you suppose a bear like that could be kept shut up long? And now I think we might be getting out, too! I don't hear any more humming outside, so I reckon the coast's about clear." He peered forth cautiously. "It's all right. Come along," he said. "And there's my pipe at the foot of the rock, just where I dropped it," he added, in a tone of great satisfaction.
I ain't a man of your eddication, and well, blast me if I'm going to be left in this place alone with that there!" He motioned with his head, back over his shoulder, towards where silent Mr. Saffron sat. "You're a blooming ass, Neddy, but have it your own way. Only let me see the coast's clear first." He stole to the window and looked around.
Here the undergrowth was very thick, and they had gone the better part of half a mile before the covert thinned sufficiently to show them the stream beneath. Then Dougal halted them with a finger on his lips, and crept forward alone. He returned in three minutes. "Coast's clear," he whispered. "The tinklers are eatin' their breakfast. They're late at their meat though they're up early seekin' it."
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