Have you the keys ?" "No; they are at home." "Then run and get them, my boy, and leave your pistol behind, you.

I dare say the savages won't attack during the daytime." Corrie did as he was desired, and the pastor went, after breakfast, to spend a short time with Alice on a neighboring eminence, from which could be obtained a fine view of the settlement with its little church, and the calm bay, on which floated the frigate, sheltered by the encircling coral reef from the swell of the ocean.
Here it was Mr.Mason's wont to saunter with Alice every Sunday morning, to read a chapter of the Bible to her, and converse about that happy land where one so dear to both of them now dwelt with their Saviour.
Here, also, the child's maid was sometimes privileged to join them.

On this particular morning, however, they were not the only spectators of the beautiful view from that hill; for, closely hidden in the bushes--not fifty yards from the spot where they sat--lay a band of armed savages who had escaped the vigilance of the scouts, and had come by an unguarded pass to the settlement.
They might easily have slain or secured the missionary and his household without alarming the people in the village, but their plan of attack forbade such a premature proceeding.

The trio therefore finished their chapter and their morning prayer undisturbed, little dreaming of the number of glittering eyes that watched their proceedings..