CHAPTER NINE.
"Think we've done right, my lad ?" said Gurr, after they had half way descended the slope.
"Yes, of course.

How could we search the house of a gentleman like that ?" "Oh, easy enough." "It was impossible." "But suppose, after all, he has got all the stuff hid away.

Some men's very artful, as you'll find out some day.

Oughtn't we to go back ?" He paused as he said these words, and then laid his hand firmly on Archy's shoulder.
"I didn't tell you," he said, "what I saw when I went back to the farm." "No! What ?" cried the midshipman eagerly.
"That old chap having a glass of real smuggled spirits." "How do you know it was ?" "Because I tasted it.

No mistake about that, I can tell you.