Then one asked: 'Jack! how about the undercliff? Has not your father got runs and rat-holes there that would contain us all?'
'No,' answered the young man. 'He is too wary for that. He knows that the very first place that would be searched would be his cottage.'
'There is something in that. Then there is no help for it; we must drop our goods—there in yonder plantation I advise—and get away singly as best we may.'
'We shall be caught and detained till the whole of this bit of country has been put through the sieve, and if they find the tubs—we are done for.'
'It is a bad job.'
'I vote we fight rather than lose our goods.'
'There are too many. We should be overpowered.'
'I do not relish losing everything without making an effort to break through.'
'I can tell you what to do,' said the girl, 'and also where you may conceal everything.'
'Where is that?'