Never mind, we can keep awake better now, and--Hullo!" "What is it ?" "Here: look out, Mike--look out!" There was no time to look out, no means of doing so in the darkness, and after all no need.

Vince had placed his hand upon something hairy and moist, and let it stay there, as he wondered what it was, till that which he had felt grasped the fact that the touch was an unaccustomed one, and a monstrous seal started up, threw out its head and began to shuffle rapidly away from where it had been asleep.

The alarm was taken by half a dozen more, and by the time the two boys were afoot and had seized their weapons--_splash, splash, splash_!--the heavy creatures had plunged back into the pool from which they had crawled to sleep, and by the whispering and lapping of the water on the walled sides of the cave the boys knew that the curious beasts were swimming rapidly away towards the mouth.
"Nice damp sort of bedfellows," said Vince, laughing merrily.

"I say, Mike, I'm all right.

I don't know, though--I can't feel my legs very well.