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`` That 's what we 've got to find out , '' replied Captain Hardy . `` I do n't see how , '' said Lew hopelessly . `` No more do I , '' rejoined their leader , `` but we 'll have to start with what clues we have and try to follow them . All we know is that this motor-boat is outward bound through the Narrows and presumably is going to be at the Balaklavan rendezvous at nine o'clock . '' `` I wish we had a Light Brigade to send after them , '' sighed Henry , and as the others laughed , he began to quote what he remembered of Tennyson 's lines that have made the name of Balaklava immortal : '' ` Into the jaws of death , Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred . ' '' Long ago dusk had come . The lights were lighted and the little group of scouts still clustered about their maps , searching vainly for a clue .