"That's all right. I expect you'll get hanged, but blow me if I could see a dog starve, and you're a trump anyway, though you be a rebel."
CHAPTER XXIX.
ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.
Three days after his capture, Ethan Allen heard an extraordinary noise on the upper deck, and he knew that the Gaspee was about to sail. But its destination he did not know.
After the first day the prisoners were allowed to have one meal a day, for, as Prescott told Allen, he did not want to cheat the gallows.
The Gaspee was bound for Quebec, and the prisoners were overjoyed at the prospect of a change.
"It cannot be for the worse," said one of the Americans to Allen; "therefore we shall be the gainers."
"I wish they would hang us right away," answered the hero of Ticonderoga, "for I am tired of this life."
"We shall all be free——"