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Corporal Sam lifted his bleeding fist and struck him across the mouth. The sergeant dragged the two apart, slipped an arm under his comrade's, and led him away as one leads a child. A moment later the surge of the retreating crowd had almost carried them off their feet. But the sergeant kept a tight hold, and steered his friend back every yard of the way along the bullet-swept foreshore.
"Let Parson Polsue speak first, for to my knowledge the Major was bound for his lodgings when last seen." "I haven't set eyes on him," said Parson Polsue. "I saw him!" piped up a woman in the crowd. "I saw him about six this morning. He was walking along the foreshore towards Mr. Grandison's." At this everyone turned to the Curate; but he shook his head.
He beckoned very mysterious-like and led the Parson a couple of hundred yards up the foreshore, with Arch'laus Spry following. And there they came to a halt, all three, before a rock that someone had been daubing with whitewash. On the top of the cliff, right above, was planted a stick with a little white flag. "Now, Sir, as a Justice of the Peace, what d'ee think of it?"
But he petitioned Government that Israel should have a concession of that part of the foreshore being against all smuggling and maybe thinking to have him as a sort of spiritual exciseman. "Yes, Mr. Lyon," Boyd went on, gratified by the interest in his tale, "'tis wonderful, when you think on't. Empty from stem to stern she is, with skylights in her deck and windows in her side!
Between these points it lay there, a broad, sluggish stretch of water upon which the old fort looked down from the rising foreshore. The benighted instincts of the Shaunekuks know no half measure. Fort Duggan to them was the gateway of Unaga, which was the home of all Evil Spirits. So they looked upon the fort without favour, and left it severely alone. But now all that was changed.
Reserves were gathered, smoking and talking in the hush of expectancy. Further afield an outpost held the entrance to the gorge to the north of the camp. A steep rugged split deeply wooded and dropping sharply from the heights above to the great foreshore. It was an admirable point to hold.
Bill nodded agreement. "Sure. And that queer old shack half-way up. We best make that right away." The canoe was hauled clear of the racing stream, and left secure. Then they moved up the rocky foreshore where the inlet had cut its way through the heart of the woods. It was a curious, almost cavernous opening.
"Well, sir, he turned then in the dark and started back for Coverack to cry the dismal tidings though well knowing ship and crew to be past any hope, and as he turned the wind lifted him and tossed him forward 'like a ball, as he'd been saying, and homeward along the foreshore.
Suddenly there fell upon our ears the scrambling, clattering noise which invariably accompanies the descent of anybody rash enough to enter a Cornish cove with undue haste in leather-soled shoes. The Mermaid darted behind a rock, and I advanced gratefully up the foreshore to the fringe of stones. The noise grew louder, and the slips more frequent, until there was one long one, and then a thud.
But he made shift pretty well till he got to Lowland, and then had to drop upon hands and knees and crawl, digging his fingers every now and then into the shingle to hold on, for he declared to me that the stones, some of them as big as a man's head, kept rolling and driving past till it seemed the whole foreshore was moving westward under him.
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