I'll watch there to-night.

Do you keep all your old haunts safe, of course, and send a couple of stout knaves to the mill, to watch the beach at the Deer Park End, on the chance; for your poet may be a true man, after all.

But my heart's faith is, that this comes just to draw you off from some old beat of yours, upon a wild-goose chase.

If they shoot the miller by mistake, I suppose it don't much matter ?" "Marry, no." "'When a miller's knock'd on the head, The less of flour makes the more of bread.'" "Or, again," chimed in old Mr.Cary, "as they say in the North-- "'Find a miller that will not steal, Or a webster that is leal, Or a priest that is not greedy, And lay them three a dead corpse by; And by the virtue of them three, The said dead corpse shall quicken'd be.'" "But why are you so ready to watch Freshwater to-night, Master Amyas ?" "Because, sir, those who come, if they come, will never land at Mouthmill; if they are strangers, they dare not; and if they are bay's-men, they are too wise, as long as the westerly swell sets in.

As for landing at the town, that would be too great a risk; but Freshwater is as lonely as the Bermudas; and they can beach a boat up under the cliff at all tides, and in all weathers, except north and nor'west.