“What the devil are we to do, Mark?” I inquired, after we had groaned in unison until both were weary of complaining.

“Do!” exclaimed the fosterer, “Give the thieves leg-bail, and ‘cut our lucky’ the first opportunity.”

There was wisdom in Mark Antony’s advice, and I determined to follow it.


CHAPTER XLI. BATTLES OP THE PYRENEES.

“If I begin the battery once again,

I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur,

Till in her ashes she lie buried.”

King Henry V.