"
"I think I do see something white. But I want you to look out there,
towards what they call the Chapel Rock, at the other end of that long mound
they call the breakwater. You will soon see a boat appear full of the
coast-guard. I saw them going on board just as I left the house to come up
to you. Their officer came down with his sword, and each of the men had a
cutlass. I wonder what it can mean."
We looked. But before the boat made its appearance, Connie cried out--
"Look there! What a big boat that is rowing for the land, away northwards
there!"
I turned my eyes in the direction she indicated, and saw a long boat with
some half-dozen oars, full of men, rowing hard, apparently for some spot on
the shore at a considerable distance to the north of our bay.
"Ah!" I said, "that boat has something to do with the coast-guard and their
cutlasses. You'll see that, as soon as they get out of the bay, they will
row in the same direction."
So it was. Our boat appeared presently from under the concealment of the
heights on which we were, and made at full speed after the other boat.
"Surely they can't be smugglers," I said. "I thought all that was over and
done with.
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