We caught, as I tell you, some of the countrymen, and Fisher has taken them off to Weymouth, but most of them got away.
There are several places where the cliff can be climbed by men who know it, and I have no doubt half those fishermen you see there were engaged in the business." "Then the smuggler got away ?" Mr.Wilks asked.
"I don't know," the lieutenant said shortly.

"I had sent word to Weymouth, and I hope they will catch her in the offing.

The lugger came down this way first, but we made her out, and showed a blue light.

She must have turned and gone back again, for this morning at daylight we made her out to the east.

The cutter was giving chase, and at first ran down fast towards her.