"Write what I shall tell 'ee, now then:
"To Miss Naomi Penryn. If you breathe one word about, or come near Granfer Fraddam's Cave, I am a dead man!"
I wrote the words as he spoke them. "Is that all?" I asked.
"Sign yer naame, sonny."
I did as he told me.
He took the paper from me and spelt out the words carefully. "Ah, 'tes a grand thing to be a schullard," he said, admiringly. Then he turned to Ikey Trethewy. "This must be put in that young woman's hands at once, an' nobody must knaw 'bout et. Mind!"
"Iss, Cap'n," responded Ikey.
"Now we'll go," said Cap'n Jack. "Good-night, Ikey. Ah, 'tes a good thing to be a man of paice, and full of love for one's fella cretters. Now then, Jasper."
Two men waited for us in the outer cave, and a few seconds later I was in a boat bound for Kynance Cove.