“I was just thinking, when you spoke, that we were running into a nest of the enemy.”
“Just before the battle of the Alma, I went on just such an expedition as this; but we went down the river beyond the enemy’s lines, and doubled up in the rear of them; thus finding out all we wanted to know.”
“That is what I propose to do.”
“Captain Brickfield and myself landed, and walked sixty-four miles between nine o’clock in the evening and four o’clock in the morning,” added Captain de Banyan.
“How far?”
“Sixty-four miles.”
“Good!” exclaimed Somers. “Did you walk all the way?”
“Every step.”
“It was tip-top walking, De Banyan—a little more than nine miles an hour.”
“Do you doubt the story?”