But we must have left them a long way behind, or else they've covered over their lanthorn so as to come upon us by surprise." "Think they are near us, then ?" "Must be, because the tide would carry them along as fast as it does us; and they have the advantage of knowing the way.

Oh! I do wish we could get out in the open sea; and then, once we were clear of the rocks, we'd show them what the boat could do.

It would puzzle them to--" He was going to say "catch us then," but he stopped short, gazing upward, out of the black chasm in which they were, at the stars.
"What is it?
See the light ?" whispered Mike.
"No: I was trying to make out our course.

The passage has wound off to the right, and we're going east." "Of course it would zigzag and turn about," said Mike wearily; "but we're in deeper water here, for we don't seem to go near any small rocks." "No; but we're going by plenty of big ones on the left.

The current runs close to them, I'm sure, though it's ever so much wider now.