THE WELL-HOUSE For those thou mayest not look upon Are gathering fast round the yawning stone--_Scott_ It wanted yet half an hour of midnight when I found myself at the shaft of the marble quarry, and before I had well set foot on the steps to descend, heard Elzevir's voice challenging out of the darkness below.

I gave back '_Prosper the Bonaventure',_ and so came home again to sleep the last time in our cave.
The next night was well suited to flight.

There was a spring-tide with full moon, and a light breeze setting off the land which left the water smooth under the cliff.

We saw the _Bonaventure_ cruising in the Channel before sundown, and after the darkness fell she lay close in and took us off in her boat.

There were several men on board of her that I knew, and they greeted us kindly, and made much of us.