[Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookCutlass and Cudgel CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT 2/11
Let's find the way in, and that will be enough.
They won't show fight.
Let's get on, and we shall be marching them all out tied two and two before they're much older." The party kept on along the rugged undulating top of the cliffs, till, after a careful inspection in all directions, Archy declared that they must now be over the cavern. The second boat's crew had overtaken them now, and, upon receiving this information, the master spread his men out a few yards apart, to sweep the ground after the fashion observed on the previous night. "You must find it now, my lads," he said.
"I should say what you've got to look for is a hole pretty well grown over with green stuff right up at the end of a bit of a gully, and looking as if no one had been there for a hundred years." "Yes, something like the mouths of the old quarries we have seen," added Archy. "Then there's something of the sort down yonder," cried Dick, pointing to a spot where the ground seemed to have sunk down. "Yes," cried Archy eagerly; "and that's the place.
Look here, Mr Gurr." "What at, my lad ?" "The grass." "Well, we want to find smugglers, not grass, my lad." "Yes, but don't you see that some one has gone over here lately.
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