Some of them did run up, and I kept with them, but sorrah a glimpse of ye did we get.

At last, everyone made sure that you were kilt entirely, and went their ways.
"I went off to our lodgings, but took good care not to go in.

And it was well I didn't, for, half an hour later, a troop of sodgers came up, and some of them went in.
"They were led by that black villain who used to come wid messages from Mr.O'Brian, and I have no doubt it was he who set the sodgers upon you.
Anyhow, they didn't find much there, but four of them waited till morning inside, the others all going away, so that, if you had got out of the river, they might catch ye in a trap.
"I waited till they had left this morning, thinking, I suppose, that it was no use to stay longer, and then started to see if your honour were here.
"Sometimes I thought I should find you, then again, I tould myself that if you had been alive I must have seen you come up agin; for, knowing the strength of the stream, and how fast you could swim, I could tell pretty nigh about where you would come up, if you were keeping straight up the river.

How did you manage it at all, Master Walter ?" "I turned, and swam back again to the bank, Larry.

I knew everyone would be watching the middle of the river, and would not be looking at the water in front of them.