6 6 AUTHOR OF 'DIGBY GRAND,' CERISE,' THE GLADIATORS, ETO. CHAPTER I. 'SMALL AND EARLY.' AWILD wet night in the Channel, the white waves leaping, lashing, and tumbling together in that confusion of troubled waters, which nautical men call a 'cross-sea.' A dreary, dismal night on Calais sands: faint VOL. XV.-NO. LXXXV. moonshine struggling through a low driving scud, the harbour-lights quenched and blurred in mist. Such a night as bids the trim French sentry hug himself in his watchcoat, calmly cursing the weather, B |