ed the funeral.

It was just a few yards distant from this tree that the smugglers scaled
the wall and lifted over the helpless body of poor Coleman. They did it
expeditiously and in dead silence. Carrying him into the centre of the
yard, they deposited the luckless coast-guard-man flat on his back
beside the tomb of George Philpot, a man who had done good service in
his day and generation--if headstones are to be believed. The
inscription, which may still be seen by the curious, runs thus:--

A TRIBUTE TO THE
SKILL AND DETERMINED COURAGE
OF THE BOATMEN OF DEAL,
AND IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE PHILPOT,
WHO DIED MARCH 22, 1850.

"FULL MANY LIVES HE SAVED
WITH HIS UNDAUNTED CREW;
HE PUT HIS TRUST IN PROVIDENCE,
AND CARED NOT HOW IT BLEW."

In the companionship of such noble dead, the smugglers left Coleman to
his fate, and set off to finish their night's work at old Jeph's humble
cottage.

Tommy Bogey heard them chuckle as they passed the spot where he lay
concealed behind a tombstone, and he was sorely tempted to spring up
with an unearthly yell, well knowing that the superstitious boatmen
would take him for one risen from the dead, and fly in abject terror
from the spot; but recollecting the importance of discretion in the work
which now devolved on him, he prudently restrained himself.

The instant they were over the wall Tommy was at Coleman's side. He
felt the poor man shudder, and heard him gasp as he cut the rope that
tied the mouth of the sack; for Coleman knew well the spot to which they
had conveyed him, and his face, when it became visible, was ghastly
white and covered with a cold sweat caused by the belief that he was
being opened out for examination by some inquisitive but unearthly
visitor.

"It's only me," said Tommy with an involuntary laugh. "Hold on, I'll
set you free in no time."

"Hah!" coughed Coleman when the kerchief was removed from his mouth,
"wot a 'orrible sensation it is to be choked alive!"

"It would be worse to be choked dead," said Tommy.

"Cut the lines at my feet first, lad," said Coleman, "they've a'most
sawed through my ankle bones. There, that's it now, help me to git up
an' shake myself."

A few minutes elapsed before he recovered the f