About one o'clock
Even the solid Tower rocked with it , and the sea was a waste of spindrift and low scurrying cloud . Heritage discovered a new anxiety -- this time about the possibility of the brig landing at all . He wanted a complete bag , and it would be tragic if they got only the three seedy ruffians now circumambulating his fortress . About one o'clock he was greatly cheered by the sight of Dougal . At the moment Dobson was lunching off a hunk of bread and cheese directly between the Tower and the House , just short of the crest of the ridge on the other side of which lay the stables and the shrubberies ; Léon was on the north side opposite the Tower door , and Spidel was at the south end near the edge of the Garple glen . Heritage , watching the ridge behind Dobson and the upper windows of the House which appeared over it , saw on the very crest something like a tuft of rusty bracken which he had not noticed before . Presently the tuft moved , and a hand shot up from it waving a rag of some sort .