For though 'twas wartime, French and English were as brothers in the contraband, and the shippers would give us bit and sup, and glad to, as long as we had need of them.

But of this I need not say more, because 'twas but a project, which other events came in to overturn.
Yet 'twas this very errand, namely, to fix with the _Bonaventure_'s men the time to take us over to the other side, that Elzevir had gone out, on the day of which I shall now speak.

He was to go to Poole, and left our cave in the afternoon, thinking it safe to keep along the cliff-edge even in the daylight, and to strike across country when dusk came on.

The wind had blown fresh all the morning from south-west, and after Elzevir had left, strengthened to a gale.

My leg was now so strong that I could walk across the cave with the help of a stout blackthorn that Elzevir had cut me: and so I went out that afternoon on to the ledge to watch the growing sea.