It was the fatal bridge, the events connected with which
were yet so painfully fresh in their recollection.

"Stop one minutes here," whispered the Canadian, throwing
his sack upon the sand near the mouth of the lesser river;
"my canoe is chain about twenty yards up de bridge. I
shall come to you directly." Then cautioning the officers
to keep themselves concealed under the bridge, he moved
hastily under the arch, and disappeared in the dark shadow
which it threw across the rivulet.

The extremities of the bridge rested on the banks of the
little river in such a manner as to leave a narrow passage
along the sands immediately under the declination of the
arch. In accordance with the caution of their conductor,
the officers had placed themselves under it; and with
their backs slightly bent forward to meet the curvature
of the bridge, so that no ray of light could pass between
their bodies and the fabric itself, now awaited the
arrival of the vessel on which their only hope depended.
We shall not attempt to describe their feelings on finding
themselves, at that lone hour of the night, immediately
under a spot rendered fearfully memorable by the tragic
occurrences of the morning. The terrible pursuit of the
fugitive, the execution of the soldier, the curse and
prophecy of his maniac wife, and, above all, the forcible
abduction and threatened espousal of that unhappy woman
by the formidable being who seemed to have identified
himself with the evils with which they stood menaced,--all
rushed with rapid tracery on the mind, and excited the