The things we do!

The presence
of so many men could not be concealed.
"Who goes there?" came a military call from the boat. "Halt!
Halt!" came from the line of sleepers suddenly awakened. In an
instant both parties were under arms.
It spoke well for the temper of the men with Dunwody, perhaps
better for his serious counsel of them, that none of them made any
answer. Silently, like so many shadows, they dropped down to the
ground.
"What was that, Kammerer?" cried a voice on the boat, calling down
to some one on the shore.
"There are men here," was the answer. "Somebody's out there."
The night was now astir. Men half clothed, but fully armed, now
lined up along the beach, along the gunwale of the boat.
Apparently there were some twenty or more of them in all.
"River pirates, likely," said the leader, who had now come down the
gang-plank. "Fall in, men! Fall in!" His voice rang sharp and
clear, like that of an officer.
"Line up along this beach, and get down low!" he commanded.


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