But they must not come too close.
It was an ill landing in the dark, and there were various opinions on it.

But there was no doubt as to their intentions.

They were coming in.
"Sheer off there!" cried Gard.
Dead silence below.

They had come in some doubt, but their doubts were solved now, and there was no longer need for curbed tongues, though, indeed, his hollow voice made some of them wonder if it was not a spirit that spoke to them.
"It's him!" "The man himself!" "We have him!" "In now and get him!"-- was the burden of their growls, as they hung on their oars.
"See here, men!" said Gard, invisible even to Sark eyes, against the solid darkness of the slope.

"There has been trouble and loss enough over this matter already, and none of it my making.