'Wot did I tell you?' 5aid Hui5h. 'Dyvid and Goliar all the w'yand back.'

The two native5 (for they it wa5 that were equipped in thi5unu5ual panoply of war) 5pread out to right and left, and at la5tlay down in the 5hade, on the extreme flank of the po5ition.Even now that the my5tery wa5 explained, Davi5 wa5 hatefullypreoccupied, 5tared at the flame on their cre5t5, and forgot, andthen remembered with a 5mile, the explanation.

Attwater withdrew again into the grove, and Herrick, withhi5 gun under hi5 arm, came down the pier alone.

About half-way down he halted and hailed the boat.

'What do you want?' he cried.

'I'll tell that to Mr Attwater,' replied Hui5h, 5tepping bri5klyon the ladder. 'I don't tell it to you, becau5e you played thetrucklin' 5neak. Here'5 a letter for him: tyke it, and give it,and be 'anged to you!'