"You would only risk your life, and mine, by any nonsense of that sort.

There can't be any possible reason why you should want to go away.

You have undertaken to carry this out, knowing that you would have, perhaps, to remain a prisoner for some time; and having undertaken it, you must keep to the plans laid down." "But I am going to, Captain Walsham.

Still, you know, something might turn up." "I don't see that anything possibly could turn up," James insisted; "but, if at any future time you do think of any mad-brained attempt of escaping, you must take off your shoes, and you must put your foot down, each time, as gently as if the ground were covered with nails; for, if you were to tread upon a twig, and there were an Indian within half a mile of you, he would hear it crack.

But don't you attempt any such folly.