"It will not take long, señor; my opinion is that no spot could be better chosen than this for an ambuscade."
"Which means?"
"That, if we are to be attacked, it will be inevitably here."
"The spot, it is true, has a bad reputation; but it is long since any attack of the sort has been heard of in the country, and nothing leads to the supposition that we have one to apprehend."
The Canadian shook his head with a preoccupied air which alarmed the count.
"Come," he said, "my friend, speak clearly; I am a man. Have we, yes or no, anything to fear?"
"Yes," Oliver replied bluntly.
"Do you think so?"
"No; I am sure of it."
"Still, up to the present, we have perceived nothing."