"I took care the man was not on deck, when we made the holes in the boat, and he does not understand a word of English, so he could not have overheard what the men said." "I am sorry to say, sir, that it is a case of treachery, and that one of our officers is concerned in it.

The man said that an officer released him from his cell, and took him to his cabin, and then lowered him by a rope through the porthole." "Impossible!" James Walsham said.
"It sounds impossible, sir; but I am afraid it isn't, for the officer gave him a note to bring to the general, telling him all about it, and that note I have got in my pocket now." The midshipman then related the whole circumstances of his discovery.
"It is an extraordinary affair," James said.

"However, you are certainly not to blame for making your escape when you did.

You could not have got back into your tent till too late; and, even could you have done so, it might have gone hard with you, for of course they would have known that you were, what they would call an accomplice, in the affair." "I will go on if you like, sir," the boy said, "and hide somewhere else, so that if they track me they will not find you." "No, no," James said, "I don't think there's any fear of our being tracked.

Indian eyes are sharp; but they can't perform miracles.