“Suppose we bolt!” whispered Peterkin, brightening up as the idea occurred to him—“regularly run away!”
We seized at the idea instantly. We were all of us hard of muscle and strong of wind now, and we knew that we could outstrip the savages.
“We’ll do it!” said Jack hastily. “Let us scatter, too, so as to perplex them at the outset.”
“Capital! Then here goes. I’m off,” cried Peterkin.
“Stay!” said Jack.
“Why?” demanded Peterkin.
“Because we must appoint a place of rendezvous if we would hope to meet again.”
“True; I forgot that.”
“D’you all see yonder blue mountain-peak?”
“Let us meet there. If we miss each other at the base, let us proceed to the summit and wait. Away!”