Shall cross again tonight." Lechmere had the gig at once lowered, and started, with four hands at the oars, eastward, while the captain went ashore in the dinghy to leave for Southampton by the next boat.

The tide was against Lechmere, who, keeping close in round the point, steered the boat along at the foot of the slopes of Osborne, and kept eastward until he reached the coast-guard station at the mouth of Wootton creek.
"Oh, yes, we noticed her," the boatswain in charge replied in answer to his question.

"We saw her, as you say, on Tuesday afternoon, going east.

We could not help noticing her, for she was something out of the way.

We should not have thought so much of it, if she had not come back again just before dusk the next day, and anchored a mile to the west.