`` Now , John Capper , '' said Dick , `` back with you to Shoreby , even as for your life . Bring me instantly what men ye can collect . Here shall be the rendezvous ; or if the men be scattered and the day be near at hand before they muster , let the place be something farther back , and by the entering in of the town . Greensheve and I lie here to watch . Speed ye , John Capper , and the saints aid you to despatch . And now , Greensheve , '' he continued , as soon as Capper had departed , `` let thou and I go round about the garden in a wide circuit . I would fain see whether thine eyes betrayed thee . '' Keeping well outwards from the wall , and profiting by every height and hollow , they passed about two sides , beholding nothing . On the third side the garden wall was built close upon the beach , and to preserve the distance necessary to their purpose , they had to go some way down upon the sands . Although the tide was still pretty far out , the surf was so high , and the sands so flat , that at each breaker a great sheet of froth and water came careering over the expanse , and Dick and Greensheve made this part of their inspection wading , now to the ankles , and now as deep as to the knees , in the salt and icy waters of the German Ocean . Suddenly , against the comparative whiteness of the garden wall , the figure of a man was seen , like a faint Chinese shadow , violently signalling with both arms . As he dropped again to the earth , another arose a little farther on and repeated the same performance . And so , like a silent watch word , these gesticulations made the round of the beleaguered garden . `` They keep good watch , '' Dick whispered . `` Let us back to land , good master , '' answered Greensheve . `` 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 ! ''
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