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Cormorant Crag

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
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Vell, ve sall see.

So I go to be vairy busy, and it is better zat you two do not fight any more.

So come vis me." "Where ?" said Vince suspiciously.
"Vere?
Oh! you sall see, _mon brave_, vairy soon." The boys exchanged glances, but feeling that it was hopeless to resist, they followed the captain down to where the boat was lying, just as she had returned a few minutes before, without Daygo.
The men in her were just keeping her afloat, but they ran her stern on to the sand as they saw the captain coming, and one of them leaped out to hold her steady.
"In vis you!" said the captain sharply.
"All right, Mike," whispered Vince.

"Come on, and don't seem to mind." He set the example by putting one foot on the gunwale and springing in lightly.

Mike followed, and then the captain; while the man standing ankle-deep in the water waited till they were seated, and then, giving the boat a good thrust out, sprang on the stern, and climbed in as they glided over the transparent water, stepping forward quickly to seize an oar, and pulling sharply with his companion.
The boys gazed eagerly upward as soon as they were clear of the great overhanging archway, and saw the impossibility of escape by any cliff-climbing; for the mighty rocks were at least twenty feet out of the perpendicular, leaning over towards the little bay, whose waters were running, eddying and boiling like a whirlpool as they raced along, seizing the boat's head and seeming about to drag her right along towards a jagged cluster of rocks, standing just above the surface, and amidst which the current raged and foamed furiously.
But the men knew their work.


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