It would float then quite four inches out of the water, and that in the middle of the stream would look almost level with it." "I will try it," Harry said; "there is a chance of success." "It is a terrible risk, monsieur," Pierre said.
"I know it," Harry replied; "but it is just possible.

The chances are a hundred to one against it, but it may succeed.

Well, Pierre, do you be with your boat on the river just below the point where the town can be seen.

If you see a hatch floating down row to it.
If we are beneath it, well and good; if not--" "If not, monsieur," the fisherman's wife said solemnly, "we will pray for your souls." "Adolphe will send down to you in the morning the two fisher-girls' dresses his wife had prepared for the ladies.

Have some brandy in the boat and your little charcoal stove, and keep water boiling.
They will want it.