The adventure of the night appeared more and more difficult of execution, till suddenly d**k's countenance lightened.
"Lawless!" he cried, "you that were a shipman, can ye steal me a ship?"
"Master d**k," replied Lawless, "if ye would back me, I would agree to steal York Minster."
Presently after, these two set forth and descended to the harbour. It was a considerable basin, lying among sand-hills, and surrounded with patches of down, ancient ruinous lumber, and tumble-down slums of the town. Many decked ships and many open boats either lay there at anchor, or had been drawn up on the beach. A long duration of bad weather had driven them from the high seas into the shelter of the port; and the great trooping of black clouds, and the cold squalls that followed one another, now with a spr
