THE leading particulars of this narration were all that Augustus communicated to me while we remained near the box.

It was not until afterward that he entered fully into all the details.

He was apprehensive of being missed, and I was wild with impatience to leave my detested place of confinement.

We resolved to make our way at once to the hole in the bulkhead, near which I was to remain for the present, while he went through to reconnoiter.

To leave Tiger in the box was what neither of us could endure to think of, yet, how to act otherwise was the question.