What does your wit suggest ?" "Ma fe!" said Aunt Jeanne, "you are right.

Torode will be after them, and they are not safe here.

Can you not get them over to Peter Port, or to Jersey ?" "They are watching the ways," I said, for I was loth to start on any fresh voyaging now that Carette and home were to my hand.

"Their boats were out all night on the look-out." "We might get through one way or another, if we started at once," said my grandfather, looking doubtfully at me.
"I can't do another thing till I've had some rest," I said.

"It is so long since I slept that I cannot remember when it was;" and indeed, what with want of food, and want of sleep, and loss of blood, now that the excitement was over I was feeling weary unto death.
"Then hide them," said Aunt Jeanne.