After that I shall run in, and we'll creep along under the land.

Good deep water for five-and-twenty miles there close under the cliff." "Then you are making for Clayblack Bay ?" "Ah, you'll see," said the man surlily.

"As long as you get to where you can overhaul the boat when she comes in, you won't mind where it is, Mister Orficer.

There's no rocks to get on, unless you run ashore, and 'tarn't so dark as you need do that, eh ?" "I can take care of that," said the lieutenant sharply; and the cutter, now well out in the north-east wind then blowing, leaned over, and skimmed rapidly towards the dark sea.
The reef that stretched out from a point, and formed the race where the tide struck against the submerged rocks, and then rushed out at right angles to the shore, had been passed, and the cutter was steered on again through the clear dark night, slowly drawing nearer the dark shore line, till she was well in under the cliffs; with the result that the speed was considerably checked, but she was able to glide along at a short distance from the land, and without doubt invisible to any vessel at sea.
"There," said the great rough fellow, after three hours' sailing; "we're getting pretty close now.

Bay opens just beyond that rock." "Where I'll lie close in, and wait for her," said the lieutenant.
The man laughed softly.
"Thought I--I mean him--was to get fifty pounds, if you took the boat ?" "Yes." "Well, you must take her.