The Anglo-American army was advancing.

His heart throbbed.

Victory and rescue were at hand.
"Mr.Tilden," he said to the hunter, "listen to the ring of the ax and the thud of the spade!" "Aye, I hear 'em," was the apathetic reply; "but they don't interest me.

I'm a prisoner." "But it may mean that you won't be a prisoner much longer.

The French are fortifying, and they've gone to work with so much haste and energy that it shows an imminent need.