Mazard will come back ?" "Why, if he's not captured, nor wrecked in a gale, nor jammed up in the ice, he will come back." "You have no doubt he will come back if he can ?" "Why, no: I know he will come if he can.

He wouldn't leave us here.
Besides, you know, Wash, that we owe him and all the crew for his and their services.

I don't say that they would come back any quicker on that account: still they would be likely to want their pay, you know." "That's true." "But, Kit, if 'The Curlew' shouldn't make its appearance, do you believe we could get down to Nain, or any of those Esquimau coast-villages ?" "I don't know, Wash: we could try." "Seven hundred miles through such a country as this! Would it be possible ?" "It would be no use to stay here, you know, if we found the schooner wasn't coming back.

We must, of course, make an effort to get away.

It would be foolish to stay here till winter came on.