CHAPTER XXVII.
HOW ONE CAME TO HIM LIKE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN Nance was standing by the shelter, and even in the darkness he could tell that she was shaking, in spite of her previous vigorous incitement to defence.
"You--you didn't kill any of them ?" she asked anxiously.
"No, dear.

I warned them off and fired into the water to show them I was armed." "I was afraid.

But, there were two shots." "One of them fired back the next time I spoke, but I was expecting it." "They are wicked, wicked men, and cruel." "They are mistaken, that's all.

But it comes to much the same thing, and I don't see," he said despondently, "how we are ever to prove it to them." "They will come again." "Yes, they are to come back with every man and every boat in the Island.
I shall have my hands full.

Are there more than these two places where they can land ?" "Not good places, and these only when the sea is right.