After that I went to sleep, and did not wake again until I heard you shouting, and found the water was nearly on a level with my bed." Katherine shuddered.

"It is too horrible even to think of! We should not have known that anyone was in the house who needed saving, if it had not been for Mrs.Jenkin screaming so loudly from the other bank." "Then that is another friend; so apparently I have more friends than enemies after all, in which case I am not to be pitied," he said lightly; then asked: "Is that all the trouble--I mean so far as it concerns me ?" "It is all that I know, but I beg you to be careful, for Oily Dave is such a cowardly foe, who only strikes in the dark," she said earnestly.
"In which case I shall be safest when I keep in the light," the Englishman answered with a laugh.

"By the way, how did the old fellow earn his title?
Was it given to him because he practically lives on lard ?" "I think it was given to him because he was known to help himself so largely to the fish oils which should have been the property of the fleet," she replied.

"I did not even know that he was fond of lard, although I have suspected him nearly all winter of having stolen two pails of it from the store one night, when Miles had his back turned for a minute." "That accounts for the bill of fare at his hotel then," Mr.Ferrars said with a laugh.

"I have had nothing but lard and bread, sour heavy bread too, or lard and biscuit, or biscuit without the lard, since I arrived at Seal Cove.