The midshipmen crowded into the turf huts which some of the officers had had erected.

Scarcely had they entered, when there was the boom of a heavy gun.
"I thought so," Dick Hawtry said.

"There's the first of them.

How many more will there be before morning ?" The door opened, and a sailor put in his head.
"Gentlemen, the captain says you are to turn out.

He's going to take a party down to the castle with ropes." In a few minutes a hundred men mustered, and moved down the hill.