He guessed that he was dealing with good woodsmen, and that the kidnappers knew some secret way out of the garden.

It was so.

The Dutch governor had begun to build an old-fashioned wall with a narrow gateway, so fitted as to seem part of it.

Through this the two had vanished.
Iberville was almost in despair.

"Go back," he suddenly said to Gering, "and rouse the house and the town.