“This here’s the place where we chased ’em to, your honour,” said the gunner, “and then they disappeared like.”
“But you said it was so dark that you could not see any one.”
“Yes, your honour, we couldn’t hardly see ’em; but they disappeared all the same.”
“Where? How?”
“Some’eres here, your honour.”
“Nonsense, man! The rock’s thirty feet high here, and they could not go up that.”
“No, your honour.”
“Then where did they go?”
“That’s what none of us can’t tell, your honour.”
“Look here, Waters,” said the lieutenant in a rage; “do you mean to tell me that you have let me lead his majesty’s force of marines and sailors to the attack of a smugglers’ stronghold, and then got nothing more to show than a corner in the rocks?”