Hawker ain't far off now." "Now, sir," he continued, "I am going to tell you something which, if it ever leaks out of your lips again, in such a way as to show where it came from, will end my life as sure as if I was hung.

You remember three months ago that a boatful of men were supposed to have landed from Cockatoo ?" "Yes," I said, "I heard it from Major Buckley.

But the police have been scouring in all directions, and can find nothing of them.

My opinion is that the boat was capsized, and they were all drowned, and that the surf piled the boat over with sea-weed.

Depend on it they did not land." "Depend on it they did, sir; those men are safe and well, and ready for any mischief.