Soon it was opposite Albany and then the men rowed directly to a small schooner that lay at anchor, having come up the stream the day before.

Robert was lifted on board and carried into the depths of the vessel, where they took out the gag and put him on the floor.

The captain held a lantern over him and said: "Garay is telling you good-bye, Peter.

He's sorry he can't go with us, but he'll be having business on the Canadian frontier.

He feels that the score is about even with you for that business of the letter in the forest, and that later on he'll attend also to the hunter and the Onondaga." "And I wish you a pleasant life on the West Indian plantations," said Garay.