I really do not expect there will be any fighting.

Two junks would hardly make any opposition to the boats of the ship, and I expect we shall be back by nine o'clock with the news that they were well on fire before we came up." Percy Adcock, however, was determined, if possible, to go.

He was a favorite among the men, and when he spoke to the bow oar of the gig the latter promised to do anything he could to aid him to carry out his wishes.
"We are to start at daybreak, Tom, so that it will be quite dark when the boats are lowered.

I will creep into the gig before that and hide myself as well as I can under your thwart, and all you have got to do is to take no notice of me.

When the boat is lowered I think they will hardly make me out from the deck, especially as you will be standing up in the bow holding on with the boat hook till the rest get on board." "Well, sir, I will do my best; but if you are caught you must not let out that I knew anything about it." "I won't do that," Percy said.