In that way we cannot miss it." For the next half hour no word was spoken in the boat.

Dick kept his eyes fixed on the opposite bank.

Suddenly he touched the lieutenant.
"There, sir, that must be it.

The line of the trees has suddenly stopped, and I think I can make out a lower line behind it." "Yes, no doubt that is the junction.

We will go two hundred yards farther down before we cross; it is unlikely in the extreme that anyone is watching us, still I don't want to run the slightest risk." In another five minutes they crossed the river, whose increased width showed them that they had assuredly passed the junction of the stream.
Then they turned and followed the right hand bank.
"Stretch out a bit now, lads; you have fifteen miles' straight rowing before you, and the sooner you get to the other end, the better.