There was a big strain, and I was hauled backwards as if a team of wild horses were pulling at me.

Then there was a jerk, and I knew nothing more, till I woke up and found myself on the sands, out of reach of the surf.
"Your father did not come to for half an hour.

He had been hurt a bit worse than I had, but at last he came round.
"Well, we were kept three months in a sort of castle place; and then one day a party of chaps, with guns and swords, came into the yard where we were sitting.

The man, who seemed the head of the fellows who had been keeping us prisoners, walked up with one who was evidently an officer over the chaps as had just arrived.

He looked at us both, and then laid his hand on the captain.