`` We stand here too open ; for , look ye , when the seas break heavy and white out there behind us , they shall see us plainly against the foam . '' `` Ye speak sooth , '' returned Dick . `` Ashore with us , right speedily . '' CHAPTER II -- A SKIRMISH IN THE DARK Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse . `` I pray Heaven that Capper make good speed ! '' said Dick . `` I vow a candle to St. Mary of Shoreby if he come before the hour ! '' `` Y ' are in a hurry , Master Dick ? '' asked Greensheve . `` Ay , good fellow , '' answered Dick ; `` for in that house lieth my lady , whom I love , and who should these be that lie about her secretly by night ? Unfriends , for sure ! '' `` Well , '' returned Greensheve , `` an John come speedily , we shall give a good account of them . They are not two score at the outside -- I judge so by the spacing of their sentries -- and , taken where they are , lying so widely , one score would scatter them like sparrows . And yet , Master Dick , an she be in Sir Daniel 's power already , it will little hurt that she should change into another 's . Who should these be ? '' `` I do suspect the Lord of Shoreby , '' Dick replied . `` When came they ? '' `` They began to come , Master Dick , '' said Greensheve , `` about the time ye crossed the wall . I had not lain there the space of a minute ere I marked the first of the knaves crawling round the corner . '' The last light had been already extinguished in the little house when they were wading in the wash of the breakers , and it was impossible to predict at what moment the lurking men about the garden wall might make their onslaught .
Of two evils , XXXXX preferred the least .
CHAPTER Daniel Dick Greensheve Shoreby Unfriends first knaves night sentries