How surprised the Frenchies must have been when Dunbar and his sailors swarmed aboard." "'Tis almost our only victory," said Willet, "and I'm right glad, Benjamin, it has fallen to the lot of one of your ships to win it." The long supper which was in truth a dinner was finished at last.

Hardy made good his boast, proving that he was a mighty trencherman.

Pillsbury pressed him closest, and the others, although they did well, lingered at some distance in the rear.

Afterward they walked in the town, observing its varied life, and at a late hour returned to Hardy's house which he called a mansion.
Robert and Tayoga were assigned to a room on the second floor, and young Lennox again noted the numerous evidences of opulence.

The furniture was mostly of carved mahogany, and every room contained articles of value from distant lands.
"Tayoga," said Robert, "what do you think of it all ?" "I think that the man Hardy is shrewd, Dagaeoga, shrewd like one of our sachems, and that he has an interest in you, greater than he would let you see.