All is quiet without.
The important moment had now arrived.

Certain it was, that if this chance were suffered to pass unimproved, a second would hardly present itself.

For early, doubtless, on the following morning, if not some way prevented, the two soldiers would convey Israel back to his floating prison, where he would thenceforth remain confined until the close of the war; years and years, perhaps.

When he thought of that horrible old hulk, his nerves were restrung for flight.

But intrepid as he must be to compass it, wariness too was needed.