And what with the extreme violence of the motion , and the continued drunken bravado of Lawless , still shouting and singing at the helm , the stoutest heart on board may have nourished a shrewd misgiving as to the result . But Lawless , as if guided by an instinct , steered the ship across the breakers , struck the lee of a great sandbank , where they sailed for awhile in smooth water , and presently after laid her alongside a rude , stone pier , where she was hastily made fast , and lay ducking and grinding in the dark . CHAPTER V -- THE GOOD HOPE -LRB- continued -RRB- The pier was not far distant from the house in which Joanna lay ; it now only remained to get the men on shore , to surround the house with a strong party , burst in the door and carry off the captive . They might then regard themselves as done with the Good Hope ; it had placed them on the rear of their enemies ; and the retreat , whether they should succeed or fail in the main enterprise , would be directed with a greater measure of hope in the direction of the forest and my Lord Foxham 's reserve . To get the men on shore , however , was no easy task ; many had been sick , all were pierced with cold ; the promiscuity and disorder on board had shaken their discipline ; the movement of the ship and the darkness of the night had cowed their spirits . They made a rush upon the pier ; my lord , with his sword drawn on his own retainers , must throw himself in front ; and this impulse of rabblement was not restrained without a certain clamour of voices , highly to be regretted in the case . When some degree of order had been restored , Dick , with a few chosen men , set forth in advance . The darkness on shore , by contrast with the flashing of the surf , appeared before him like a solid body ; and the howling and whistling of the gale drowned any lesser noise . He had scarce reached the end of the pier , however , when there fell a lull of the wind ; and in this he seemed to hear on shore the hollow footing of horses and the clash of arms . Checking his immediate followers , he passed forward a step or two alone , even setting foot upon the down ; and here he made sure he could detect the shape of men and horses moving . A strong discouragement assailed him . If their enemies were really on the watch , if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier , he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of very poor defence , the sea behind , the men jostled in the dark upon a narrow causeway . He gave a cautious whistle , the signal previously agreed upon . It proved to be a signal far more than he desired . Instantly there fell , through the black night , a shower of arrows sent at a venture ; and so close were the men huddled on the pier that more than one was hit , and the arrows were answered with cries of both fear and pain . In this first discharge , Lord Foxham was struck down ; Hawksley had him carried on board again at once ; and his men , during the brief remainder of the skirmish , fought -LRB- when they fought at all -RRB- without guidance . That was perhaps the chief cause of the disaster which made haste to follow . At the shore end of the pier , for perhaps a minute , Dick held his own with a handful ; one or two were wounded upon either side ; steel crossed steel ; nor had there been the least signal of advantage , when in the twinkling of an eye the tide turned against the party from the ship . Someone cried out that all was lost ; the men were in the very humour to lend an ear to a discomfortable counsel ; the cry was taken up . `` On board , lads , for your lives ! ''
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