"We feel happy now having escaped one danger, and we won't escape the other until we come to it." "Perhaps you're right, lad.

We'll enjoy our few minutes of safety while we can and the sight of those canoes scurrying around the lake, looking for their lost prey, will help along our merriment." "That's true," said Robert, "and I think I'll take a glance at them now just to soothe my soul." They were about three quarters of the way up the cliff, and the three, turning at the same time, gazed down at a great height upon the vast expanse of Lake George.

The night had lightened again, a full moon coming out and hosts of stars sparkling in the heavens.

The surface of the lake gleamed in silver and they distinctly saw the canoes cruising about in their search for the three.

They also saw far in the south a part of the fleet returning, and Robert breathed a sigh of thankfulness that they had escaped at last from the water.
They turned back to the top, but the white lad felt a sudden faintness and had he not clung tightly to a stout young bush he would have gone crashing down the slope.