Then I thought at any rate the chief rogue was done for, when Muller wrote to tell me he was going to finish him for me the next day.

Then they both got through that day's fighting by the Scheldt, though I hear they were in the front of it.

And now, when I leave them fastened up like puppies in a basket, in a sinking boat, comes this explosion, and all is uncertain again." "Not a bit of it," the other voice said; "they simply preferred a sudden death to a slow one.

The matter is simple enough." "I wish I could think so," the other said.

"But I tell you, after this night's work I shall never feel my life's safe for one hour, till I hear certain news of their death.
"Stop rowing," he said, in Dutch.