This jeweller had much to tell of midnight affairs down on the wharf, and landings contrived on the beach amidst a crackling of blunderbuss and pistol. The revenue people, he said, had always been, as they still were, as determined and heroic as their foemen.
'But,' said Captain Jackman, 'I am told that you have no revenue people left here.'
The jeweller answered—
'There is one, I believe, paces the cliff side 'twixt——' And he named two little places on the coast.
'That's to the east'ard,' said the captain.
'Yes, sir. For some unnameable reason, considering they had taken so much trouble in the Devil's Walk, the whole body of the men sailed east.'
'So that further west, and further west still,' said Captain Jackman, 'you'll scarcely find a look-out.'
'I doubt if you'd find one.'
'Why don't they run their goods west, then?' said the captain. 'No look-out is what they want, isn't it?'