We heard the sound of the guns, and the Herm men are getting back there as fast as they can go." "What day is this ?" "To-day is Thursday." "Thursday!" echoed Carette.

"And we came in here on Tuesday! Is it Thursday of this week or Thursday of next week, Uncle George ?" "This week," he said with surprise, for he could not possibly understand how completely we had lost count of time.

"Torode came across himself with four big boat-loads of rascals, with carronades in their boats, too, and they have turned the Island upside down in search of you.

He thought, you see, without doubt, that if he could lay hands on you there was no one else could swear to anything but hearsay.

But the Peter Port men will take your grandfather's word for it, as they would take no one else's.