I can see the scarlet quite plain." "Yes, yes: the marines.

What else ?" "There's an officer just in front of the flag." "One officer ?" "Stop a minute.

Yes, there's another: he seems to me a bigger man." "Look--look again." "It's so far off that I can't quite make out, and the glass won't keep steady; but I think he has a big white beard.

Yes, and he has taken off his hat.

His head is white." Lady O'Hara half closed her eyes, and the captain, who was near, saw that a smile came upon her lip.
"But you see some one else, Nic ?" she said faintly.
"Yes," said the boy in a very husky voice; "but it must be a seaman: there is some one in a straw hat." "And who will that be, Nic ?" "A sailor, I suppose." "I do not say.