When they miss you there they'll try to locate you, and they'll soon trail us to these bushes." Captain James Colden had his share of pride, and much faith in himself, but he had nobility of soul, too.
"I believe you implicitly, Mr.Willet," he said.

"If it had not been for you and your friends the enemy would have been upon us when we expected him not at all, and 'tis most likely that all of us would have been killed and scalped.

So, I thank you now, lest I fall in the battle, and it be too late then to express my gratitude." It was a little bit formal, and a little bit youthful, but Willet accepted the words in the fine spirit in which they were uttered.
"What we did was no more than we should have done," he replied, "and you'll pay us back.

In such times as these everybody ought to help everybody else.

Caution your soldiers, captain, won't you, not to make any noise at all.