I should say as it wur more likely as he got on board one of the boats.

It seems to me as though he might have come to warn us--that is to say, to warn them, I mean--just to do em a good turn, as he was always ready to do if he had the chance.

But he wouldn't have had anything to do with the scrimmage, and might have been standing, quiet like, near the boats, when the other lot came along the shore, and then, seeing as the game was up, he might, likely enough, have jumped on board and gone off to the lugger." "That is possible," Mr.Wilks said.

"Anyhow, I will go off at once, and make inquiries at all the houses within a mile or so of the landing place.".