Our figures could not have been observed beyond that we were apprentices, and we can enter the city quietly, without fear of detection." The wind dropped in the evening, and, the tide turning, the captain brought to anchor.

In the morning he sailed forward again.

When he neared Gravesend he saw a vessel lying in the stream.
"That is a Parliament ship," he said.
At that moment another vessel of about the same size as that in which they were was passing her.

She fired a gun, and the ship at once dropped her sails and brought up.
"What can she be doing now, arresting the passage of ships on their way down?
If your crime had been a serious one, I should have thought that a message must have been brought down in the night for her to search vessels coming down stream for the persons of fugitives.

What say you, lads?
Have you told me the truth ?" "We have told you the truth, sir," Harry said; "but not the whole truth.
The circumstances are exactly as my friend related them.