You might get a ship back to England, but I should have very little chance of getting one for France." "No; but we might get one together for America, and from there you might get to France easily enough." Jacques thought for some minutes.

"No, lad; I will give myself up with you.

We might get lost in a boat, seeing that neither of us know the geography of these seas; we might get short of water, or caught in a hurricane.

No, I will give myself up.

I know the worst that way, anyhow.