I know how we will outwit our pursuers this very night.

Say, can yon swim, as you can do all else that a brave Englishman should ?" "Like a fish," answered Paul, who had many a time terrified and astonished his mother by his feats in the salmon pool at home, and had never lost the skill and strength to battle with wind or wave.
"Good! I was sure of it; and I can do the same.

Paul, come here to the window.

See you no means of escape as you look down into that dark, sullen water below ?" Paul started and looked eagerly out.

The inn, as has before been said, stood on the banks of the great river Thames.