No one does, so far as I know, but I have heard say this morning as how he was there or thereabouts; but don't you let out as I told you, 'cause they would want to know who I heard it from." "You can rely upon my silence, my lad, and here's half a guinea to drink my health between you.

But can't you tell me a little more ?" "Well, sir, they do say as how it war Mr.Jim as came running down into the middle of them on the beach, shouting the alarm, with the revenue men close at his heels.

I don't say as it were he--likely enough it weren't--but that's the talk, and that's all I have heared about the matter.

How he came for to know of it, or how he got there, no one knows, for sartin he has had nought to do with any landings afore.

He was a lot among us, but I know as he never was told about it; for, though everyone would have trusted Jim, still, seeing how he was placed, with his mother up at the Hall, and the squire a magistrate, it was thought better as he shouldn't be let into it.