"If those marks were old the sand would have drifted in and covered them over quite smooth, same as the floor was in our cave before we walked about it.

Mike, all these things are quite new, and haven't been put here long." "Nonsense! who could have put them ?" "I don't know; but here they are, and if we don't look out some one will come and catch us.

This is a smugglers' cave." "But there are no smugglers here.

Who ever heard of smugglers at the Crag!" "I never did; but I'm sure these are smuggled goods." "Well, I don't know," said Mike.

"It seems very queer.