I should feel pretty confident if it was you and two of us who had to do it; but the difficulty will be to get the young ladies under it, and then to get them to lie quiet there." "That is the difficulty," Harry admitted.

"I am sure of the eldest.
Her nerves are as good as mine; what I fear is about the younger." "I'll tell you what, monsieur," one of the other men said; "if you take my advice you will have a piece of rope in readiness and tie it round her arms so as to prevent her struggling." "That would be the best way," Harry agreed.

"Yes, if I see she won't be calm and do as I tell her, that is what I will do." "Now, monsieur, I will bore a couple of auger-holes through the bulkhead here so that you can see what is going on in the hold.
They have got the hatch off there.

I suppose it wasn't padlocked, and they will no doubt go down to bore the holes the last thing.
Like enough they have bored them already, and will only have to knock out the plugs.

I will just go and see anyhow.