After that, we must wait at least an hour before we made our attack; so that both the Captain and his comrades might be deep in sleep.

It was important that they should have not a moment either to send their craft darting out upon the waters of Lake Erie, or to plunge it beneath the waves where we would have been entrapped with it.
In all my career I have never felt such impatience.

It seemed to me that the two men must have been detained in the woods.

Something had barred their return.
Suddenly a loud noise was heard, the tumult of run-away horses, galloping furiously along the shore! They were our own, which, frightened, and perhaps neglected by the driver, had broken away from the clearing, and now came rushing along the bank.
At the same moment, the two men reappeared, and this time they were running with all speed.

Doubtless they had discovered our encampment, and had at once suspected that there were police hidden in the woods.
They realized that they were watched, they were followed, they would be seized.