It is well that my business will take me down the river towards Quebec, while they will make sure that I shall have made up the river, with a view of making my way off to the ships, the next time they go up above Cap Rouge." "It will be risky work getting through them," the midshipman remarked; "but all the same, I wish I was going with you, instead of having to stick here in prison." "It would be running too great a risk of spoiling my chance of success," James said.

"I am accustomed to the redskins, and can crawl through them as noiselessly as they could themselves.

Besides, one can hide where two could not.

I only hope that, when they find I have gone, they won't take it into their heads to revenge my escape upon you." "There is no fear of that," the midshipman said.

"I shall be sound asleep in the tent, and when they wake me up, and find you are gone, I shall make a tremendous fuss, and pretend to be most indignant that you have deserted me." The two prisoners had eaten but little of the meals served to them that day, putting the greater portion aside, and hiding it in the straw which served for their beds, in order that James might take with him a supply, for it might be three or four days before he could be taken off by the ships' boats.
"I suppose you won't go very far tonight ?" the midshipman said, suddenly.
"No," James replied.