"Why didn't he get a boat?"
"Ah, mon Gyu!" and she started up wildly. "I was forgetting. I was thinking only of myself and Bernel. There isn't a boat left alive outside the Creux, and he couldn't get one there without them knowing. But"—in quick excitement now, to make up for lost time—"they have seen you here, and they may come to-night—Achochre that I am! They may be here! Come quickly! Your gun!" and she was all on the quiver to be gone.
Gard stooped and pulled out the gun from its hiding-place inside the shelter.
"Is it loaded?" she asked sharply.
"Yes. I cleaned it to-day."
"Take your charges with you, and do you hasten back to the place we landed the first night. You know?"
"I know. And you?"
"I will go to the other landing-place. But they are not likely to come there."
"And if they do?"
"I will manage them," and she slipped into the darkness with the big cloak about her.