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They will make too large a load for either of the other boats." "I know that," said Frank; "but we must make the coast-guards think that the Alert is going to carry them." "How can we manage that?" inquired George. "Have you got three or four market-baskets, a clothes-basket, one or two pails, and a salt-bag?" asked Frank, without stopping to answer George's question. "I guess so," said Harry.
At the first words of his answer, which no doubt conveyed the news of d'Ormeval's death, she uttered a cry and tried to force her way through the crowd. The brother, learning in his turn what had happened, made great play with his elbows and shouted to the coast-guards: "I'm a friend of d'Ormeval's!... Here's my card!
"Tell them to make haste," whispered Frank. "Come, hurry up there, now," shouted Ned. "Ay, ay," was the answer. And, in a few moments, the Sampson, propelled by four oars, shot past them, on her way down the creek. "That's what I call pretty well done," said Ben, as soon as the coast-guards were out of hearing. "I don't," said Ned.
These arrangements, as we have said, were speedily completed; and, although the coast-guards were almost wild with delight at the prospect of the exciting times that would occur during the race, they were confident that the smugglers could be easily caught, and even some of the smugglers themselves seemed to think that their chances of landing the provisions were small indeed.
And so you did not hurry as you went, and, as things happened, you came to Faddo's house almost at the same moment with Lancy Doane and two other mounted coast-guards. "You stood in the shadow while they knocked at Faddo's door. You were so near, you could see the hateful look in his face. You were surprised he did not try to stand the coast-guards off.
"My goodness!" he continued, as he lifted them out of the boat, "how heavy they are!" And he began to untie the bag, and soon disclosed to the view of the coast-guards, not the lemons, but almost half a peck of smooth, round stones.
But the day passed, off, and they sent out men to seek for him: and another and all Burleigh was a-stir: and another and the coast-guards from Lyme to Plymouth Sound searched every hole and corner: and another when his mother wept five minutes: and another when the wonder was forgotten. However, they did not put on mourning for the truant: he might turn up yet: perhaps he was at Oxford.
They have their customs-officers, their frontiers, their coast-guards. They can expel any Bolsheviks they wish. Revolution does not depend on propaganda. If the conditions of revolution are not there no sort of propaganda will either hasten or impede it.
Isolated as this little village was on the Biscayan coasts, there was all the more reason why it should have its garrison of coast-guards; and such in reality it had.
What contributed to the general uneasiness was the fact that four men who were known to be gendarmes in disguise had been hovering about, chiefly on the beach; they had had the audacity to arrest two gunners, coast-guards in uniform and on duty, and demand their papers. A serious brawl had ensued. At night the same men "suddenly thrust a dark lantern in the face of every one they met."
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