“I say.”
“Well?”
“Are you sure there was anything landed there last night?”
“Of course we are.”
“Oh, I didn’t know. Good day, gentlemen, good day.”
He went on after his horse chuckling to himself, while the search party made for the track to get back to the cove and row back.
But before they were half way there, Archy who had been thinking deeply, suddenly said to Gurr—
“I say, though, isn’t he right?”
“What about, my lad?”
“Are we sure that a cargo was landed last night?”