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"No, your worship, we would not venture to do that, seeing that t'other day when one of the coastguard broached a keg to see whether it had brandy or not he got into trouble for drinking the spirits." "For drinking the spirits! He deserved to be," exclaimed Sir Reginald. "However, that is not the point.
He knew much about young couples, but only in general terms, and nothing of the particular young couple I sought. He reminded me in the most disagreeable way of the sensuous aspects of life, and I was not sorry when presently a gunboat appeared in the offing signalling the coastguard and the camp, and cut short his observations upon holidays, beaches, and morals.
said the singer; and then some one asked a question, and some one struck a light for his pipe, and the singer droned on and on about the bold Captain Glen, and the ship which met with such disaster. At last I summoned up enough courage to speak. I crawled over the boxes as far as I could, and touched the coastguard. "Sh!" I said, in a low voice, "Don't make a sound. I've come to rescue you."
Then, for some reason or other, his conscience smote him. He put off posting the letter; and at this point again fortune helped him. Word came to him by a chance wind that the staff of the Coastguard had been shifted, over at Troy. So Nicky-Nan kept it in his pocket; and nothing happened. It had all been contrived so easily, and had succeeded so easily! Everything said and done, his leg was worse.
The two friends, who were both coastguards, held a little chat, and then the dog was told to go over for the letters. The spaniel swam across, received the blue despatches, and carried them to his master; then, with a cheery good-night, the men turned back and went across the dark moor to their homes. In the morning the tall coastguard was astir very early.
We, not without difficulty, discovered at last that they had seen some strange people on the beach; that they had come down in a cart or waggon, which had afterwards driven rapidly off; that they had got into a small boat, and pulled away for a lugger, which stood in to meet them. Uncle Boz inquired where the coastguard men had been at the time.
A Sandgate fisherman first passed a small grapnel on board, then the coastguard sent out a small line with a lifebuoy attached and one by one the crew were all saved the men of the coastguard with ropes round their waists, standing in the surf as deep as they dared to venture, catching the men who dropped, and holding their heads above water until they were safe.
Then they knew their journey was at an end; they made fast their ship, grasped their weapons, and thanked God that they had had an easy voyage. Now the coastguard spied them from a tower. He set off to the shore, riding on horseback, and brandishing a huge lance. "Who are you," he cried, "bearing arms and openly landing here? I am bound to know from whence you come before you make a step forward.
"Oh, there's a history to him, is there?" Le Neve answered, not surprised. "Well, he certainly has the look of it." The coastguard nodded his head and dropped his voice still lower. "Yes, there's a history to him," he replied. "And that's why you'll always see Trevennack of Trevennack on the top of the cliff, and never at the bottom.
"There's a certain amount of sea running, sir, out beyond the point." "I observed as much this evening." "Very good, sir." Something in the Commandant's voice forbade further argument. They were afloat almost as soon as the coastguard, and a full five minutes before the life-boat. Sergeant Archelaus pulled stroke, and Sergeant Treacher bow.
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