They had forgotten the precaution of keeping their voices low for fear of the Revenue Cutters, and sang songs in slurred voices, shouted at one another and altogether made the most unseemly noise for men in charge of a ship.
Now as the lugger moved forward, she could hear their feet scraping along the deck and occasionally a thud as if a body had fallen down.
Half a dozen people were shouting orders all at the same time and she was quite certain few of them were being obeyed.
Looking through the porthole, she could see that the mist had lifted a little, and she knew that once the wind began to blow, the fog would disperse altogether.
She was to guess a little later that, owing to the drunkenness of those in control, the lugger was being sailed in a crazy manner. They were not travellin
