They'll be up to some game to trap us safe.

Ought to get that stuff away." "No, I wouldn't, master; it's safe enough now." "You're a fool," came back in a savage growl.

"Anybody but you and that mole-eyed boy would have seen the kegs before them sailors." "Did see 'em--when it was too late," grumbled the other.
"Well, go back; and take off them boots, and hang 'em round your neck.
I could hear you a mile away." "Right." "Go and tell 'em to keep a sharp look-out in the cove, and then to run the moment a boat comes in sight." "No boat won't come in sight to-night.

Dark." "Then the moment you hear one." "They won't come to-night, master." "Go and do as I tell you," said the other savagely.
"It's the farmer and his man," thought the listener; "and there is something wrong." He wondered what he had better do.

Should he give notice to them on the cutter?
The answer came at once.