An' yer nebber know'd dis yere girl afore et all ?" "No, I never even saw her.

I chanced to hear the story, and went to the house to warn them, as no one else would.

I was too late, and no other course was left but to help her escape.

That is the whole of it." He asked several other questions, but at last appeared satisfied, and after that we discussed the guard duty of the day, both agreeing it would not be safe for us to permit any possible pursuit to pass by us up the river unseen.

Sam professed himself as unwearied by the night's work, and willing to stand the first watch; and my eyes followed his movements as he scrambled across the intervening ravine, and disappeared within a fringe of woods bordering the shore of the river.
Shortly after I lay down in the tree shade, and must have fallen asleep almost immediately.