Can you say anything that might give her a little courage?
Do you really think there is any chance of our escape from this new danger ?" "Yes," said the captain, "there is a chance.

Rynders may come back before the Rackbirds discover us, and even if two or three of them find out our retreat, I may be able to dispose of them, and thus give us a little more time.

That is our only ground of hope.

Those men are bound to come here sooner or later, and everything depends upon the return of Rynders." "But," urged Miss Markham, "perhaps they may not come so far as this to look for the runaway.

The waves may have washed out his footsteps upon the sand.