"The watchman?"
"Aye, and I saw 'ee a-tumbling down the cliff just now and brought 'ee in. I thought 'ee was done for, sure."
"And the King?"
"Is out on the King's highway taking a walk."
"By which you mean that he is out on the sea, and is expected home to-night?"
"'Zackly so."
"I'm much obliged for your kind care; and now I feel able to stand I'll have to be travelling after the boys, for it's getting dusk."
"I think 'ee had better stay, at least until the King comes, for 'ow do I know but what 'ee favours the coastguard."
There was an anxious and cunning look in the watchman's eye.
"Well, just as you say; I'll stay."