. With Perry on Lake Erie : a tale of 1812 . length, his eyesclosed almost immediately in slumber, and during atleast an hour I do not believe he so much as movedhand or foot. At the end of that time I ceased to watch my sleep-ing comrade, for the tramp of footsteps and the humof voices could be heard just outside the cave, and Iknew beyond a peradventure that the Britishers wreresearching for us. Unless they were doing their work most carelessly,it did not seem possible they could pass the aperturewithout discovering it, for of a verity, if I had beensearching for a fugitive, I wrould have ta
. With Perry on Lake Erie : a tale of 1812 . length, his eyesclosed almost immediately in slumber, and during atleast an hour I do not believe he so much as movedhand or foot. At the end of that time I ceased to watch my sleep-ing comrade, for the tramp of footsteps and the humof voices could be heard just outside the cave, and Iknew beyond a peradventure that the Britishers wreresearching for us. Unless they were doing their work most carelessly,it did not seem possible they could pass the aperturewithout discovering it, for of a verity, if I had beensearching for a fugitive, I wrould have taken good careto know what might be under such an overhang-ing rock as marked the entrance to our place ofrefuge. For an instant there came into my mind the thoughtthat it was necessary Alec be awakened in case the 130 WITH PERRY ON LAKE ERIE. men came upon us, and I stretched forth my hand totouch him; but drew it back immediately when thesound of voices told that they had halted directlyin front of where I sat, not more than ten ,i,V - - I STRETCHED FORTH MY HAND TO TOUCH HIM. THE NEW YOTIK PUBLIC LIR;?A?V A8TOB, LENOX ANOT1LDEN FOUNDATIONS B L CHAPTER VIII. A CLOSE SHAVE. • I NEEDED no evidence to convince me that theBritishers would make every effort to capture was the one thing necessary for them to do, eventhough they could not hope to keep secret the fact oftheir encampment here on the North Foreland. Whoever was in command of the troops must haveknown beyond a peradventure that the Americansliving on the opposite shore of the lake had certainknowledge regarding the gathering of soldiers at thispoint, for the camp was already established on thatwinters afternoon when Alec and I ran blindly into thehands of the redcoats. From what we heard while held as prisoners so manyweeks previous, my comrade and I knew that a move-ment was contemplated before the ice broke up. Why it had been delayed we might never learn to a certainty, but it seemed positive to me
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