Come along, my lads." The sailors scrambled in as quickly as they could, and we all followed rather slowly down what was a jagged crack in the rock about two feet wide and sloping, so that one had to walk with the body inclined to the right.
This at the end of about twenty feet opened out into quite a large rough place, which contained some old nets and tins, along with about a dozen half rotten lobster-pots, but nothing more.
"There must be another place somewhere," cried the lieutenant after convincing himself that there was no inner chamber.

"Lead on, coxswain, with the light." The man went on, and we were left to the last, hearing one of them whisper to his mate: "This here's a rum game, Jemmy; don't look like much prize-money after all." By the time we boys were out the lieutenant had disappeared with the coxswain in the first cavern, and his men followed, leaving my father outside.
"Sep," he said, as I joined him, "where do you think the men went in ?" "That first place," I said decisively.
"Yes," said Bob Chowne; "that's the hole." "So I felt certain," said my father; and Bigley stood aside looking on, with his forehead full of wrinkles.
Another minute and the lieutenant was out with his men, the officer furious with rage.
"Captain Duncan, are you in league with these smuggling dogs, or are you not ?" "What do you mean, sir ?" cried my father haughtily.
"Well, look here, sir," cried the officer moderating his tone.

"You've brought us here on a fool's errand.

Where's this cargo that you saw landed ?" "How can I tell, sir?
You appealed to me as an officer to show you where it was landed.

It was here.