'Indeed!'
'Yes. With thirty Highlandmen, I would not fear to face three hundred Greeks.'
'Even those of Leonidas?'
'Yes, Jack—even those of Leonidas!'
'Bravo!—but this may prove more than a mere melo-dramatic performance.'
'It may—but ha!—what is that?' I exclaimed.
'A gun—a flash on the shore!'
'Another!'
'And another!'
'Now, heavens above, what may this mean?'