But it's all the easier for you to read it, because you're probably thinking the same that I do." "I do, Dagaeoga.

Since St.Luc is not able to effect a surprise, he has a great task before him, though he will persist in it, because he wants to destroy our force and our boats also." But the morning passed without any demonstration from the forest.
Many of the boat builders began to believe it was a false alarm, and murmured at the continuous and hard labor on the breastworks, but Colden, knowing that Willet and his friends were to be trusted implicitly, held them to their tasks.

The hunter also looked into the question of food supply and found it ample.

They had brought much food with them from Albany and the forest had furnished much more.

There was no occasion for alarm on that point, since the siege could not be a long one.