I have no doubt they meant to capture the tubs, as they were loaded, without raising an alarm; and the fellows on the shore would have come up quietly, and taken us by surprise as we were landing the last boat loads.

Thanks to you, we have got well out of it, and have only lost one of our hands, and a score or so of tubs." "You can't put me ashore, I suppose ?" James said.
"That I can't," the smuggler replied.

"I have no doubt that cutter from Weymouth is somewhere outside us, and we must get well off the coast before morning.

If we give her the slip, I will send you off in a boat sometime tomorrow.

I must go ashore, myself, to make fresh arrangements for getting my cargo landed." James went on deck again.