THE HAKKA BOAT "Pretty fair," Captain Kneebone said.

"But that ain't the end." This grudging praise--in which, moreover, Heywood tamely acquiesced--was his only comment.

On Rudolph it had singular effects: at first filling him with resentment, and almost making him suspect the little captain of jealousy; then amusing him, as chance words of no weight; but in the unreal days that followed, recurring to convince him with all the force of prompt and subtle fore-knowledge.

It helped him to learn the cold, salutary lesson, that one exploit does not make a victory.
The springing of their countermine, he found, was no deliverance.

It had two plain results, and no more: the crest of the high field, without, had changed its contour next morning as though a monster had bitten it; and when the day had burnt itself out in sullen darkness, there burst on all sides an attack of prolonged and furious exasperation.