It was quite possible that it would be a dangerous one.

It was sure to be altogether different from the ordinary life of a subaltern in the Company's army.
Peters was very sorry when he heard from Charlie that they were, at last, to be separated.

It was now nearly two years since they had first met on board the Lizzie Anderson; and, since that time, they had been constantly together, and were greatly attached to each other.
Charlie, perhaps, had taken the lead.

The fact of his having a stock of firearms, and being able to lend them to Peters, had given him, perhaps, the first slight and almost imperceptible advantage.

His feat of jumping overboard, to rescue Tim Kelly, had been another step in advance; and, although Charlie would have denied it himself, there was no doubt that he generally took the lead, and that his friend was accustomed to lean upon him, and to look to him always for the initiative.