I suppose you understand where you are." "I'm in a boat a few miles above Albany, and I think that before long you'll turn and go back down the stream." "Why, Peter ?" "Because there's nothing for you to go to up the stream.

If you kept on you'd arrive in the Indian country, and I doubt whether that's any part of your plan." "Clever, Peter, clever! and well reasoned.

I see that your intellect's as good as ever.

You must rise above the place of a common seaman.

When you're a little older there's a mate's berth for you." Garay turned for the first time, and his malignant look of triumph was not veiled at all.
"You and Willet and the Indian thought you were very clever there in the forest when you compelled me to tell where the paper was hid," he said, "but you forgot that I might make repayment.