WITHIN a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal's cave, and the ferryboat, well filled with passengers, soon followed.
Al cap de cinc minuts les noves s'havien escampat, i una dotzena de barcades d'homes feien llur via a la cova de McDougal, i el vaporet, ben atapeit de passatgers, no triga a seguir-los.