I asked him to let me the boat for a week and he wasn't even civil about it.

Didn't want no strangers around these shores, he told me.

When I paid him for the afternoon he was surly about it and kept looking at my field-glasses." Granet frowned heavily.
"It isn't going to be an easy matter," he confessed.

"I hear the Admiralty are going to take over the whole thing within the next few days, and are sending Marines down.

How's the time ?" They glanced at their watches.