Every Templeton fellow, from Mansfield down to Gosse, knew it.

But why should Dick and Heathcote look so precious solemn about it?
"By Jove!" said he, "I wish they'd catch the fellow.

What's the use of the police being reticent ?" "Coote, old man," said Dick, in a tone which made the youth addressed open his eyes, "do you know how the _Martha_ got lost ?" "Stolen," said Coote, "by a fellow who was skulking about on the sands." "Wrong.

She was turned adrift; someone loosed the anchor rope when the tide was coming in." "How do you know that ?" "Because I was the fellow." "And I helped," said Heathcote.
"My eye! what a regular row!" said Coote.
Whereupon the "Firm" swore eternal friendship, and resolved to sink or swim together..