Then he thought of the captain and his exuberant spirits compelled him to laugh aloud.

With the chances a hundred to one against him he had evened the score.

While he had been compelled to serve the captain, the captain in turn had been forced to serve him.

It was enough to make a sick man well, and to turn despair into confidence.

He was in very truth and essence the child of hope.
Another low hill and from its summit he saw nothing but the bushy wilderness, with a strip of forest appearing on the sunken horizon.