Once fairly within their lines, half the difficulty was over.

He had learned to crawl as noiselessly as an Indian, and he doubted not that he should be able to succeed in getting away from any place of confinement in which they might place him.

Then he could follow the top of the heights, and the position of the sentries or of any body of men encamped there would, in itself, be a guide to him as to the existence of paths to the strand below.
The first step was the most difficult.

How should he manage to get himself taken prisoner?
And this was the more difficult, as it was absolutely necessary that he should fall into the hands of French regulars, and not of the Canadians, who would finish the matter at once by killing and scalping him.
The next morning, he again went off to the Sutherland.

He was in high spirits, for his name had appeared in orders as captain, and as appointed assistant quartermaster general on the headquarter staff.