We'll get a few things together." "Do not wait for anything!" exclaimed Henry.

"You haven't a minute to spare! Here are more blankets! Take them and run for the boat! Sol and Jim, see them on board, and then come back!" Carried away by such fire and earnestness, Standish and his family ran for the boat.

Jim and the shiftless one almost threw them on board, thrust a pair of oars into the bands of Standish, another into the hands of his wife, and then told them to pull with all their might for the fort.
"And you," cried Standish, "what becomes of you ?" Then a singular expression passed over his face-he had guessed Henry's plan.
"Don't you trouble about us," said the shiftless one.

"We will come later.

Now pull! pull!" Standish and his wife swung on the oars, and in two minutes the boat and its occupants were lost in the darkness.