I'll wear it for old acquaintance' sake.

Sit down, boy," he said aloud to me; "we're safe here, and can't be seen.

I want to talk with you." The rocky ledge on which we stood was about seven feet long and three or four in breadth.

On one side of it ran down the path by which we had ascended; the other end broke off with a sheer descent into the sea of some forty feet in the present state of the tide.

High above us rose an unscaleable cliff; at our feet lay a short descent to the ledge on which the cap had rested, and after that another precipice.
It was not a pleasant position in which to be left alone with this strange companion, but I was helpless, and perhaps the trace of weakness and a something not altogether evil in his face, gave me some courage.