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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Ay, interest would pay for all that?" "Yes, an' more," said the skipper confidently. "If I only knew how much it is to be," said Mrs Gaff thoughtfully. At that moment the door opened, and Kenneth Stuart entered, followed by his friend Gildart Bingley. After inquiring as to her welfare Kenneth said: "I've come to pay you the monthly sum which is allowed you by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society.
"Now, lads, come this way," said Gildart; "and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage. He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion. If you stir, and he finds you out, he won't spare you." "But you promise to come to the rescue, master," said the French horn in some alarm.
"Get up a ghost, then," said Lizzie; "I have known a ghost act with great effect on a dark night in an out-of-the-way place." "No use," returned Gildart, shaking his head. "Haco has seen ghosts enough to frighten a squadron of horse-marines."
Haco's laugh had changed into a good-humoured smile as he gazed into the fire and puffed volumes of smoke from his lips. "It was a risky thing to do, lad," he observed, as Gildart sat down; "it's well for that feller wi' the long trumpet that the brass was so thin and his head so hard, for my blood was up, bein' taken by surprise, you see, an' I didn't measure my blows.
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