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Updated: May 9, 2025
To climb down into the boat was a simple matter, but it had only just been accomplished when there came the noise of oars in rowlocks, from the other side of the hulk, followed by the sound of voices. "Some redcoats have come off to the ship, from the shore!" whispered Dick, to Boswick. "We must get away from here in a hurry, for your escape will be discovered very quickly!"
Ken shook his head, too bewildered and mystified to reply. "Well, now, here's Giraffe Boswick. Look what you did to him!" Ken's glance followed the wave of Dale's hand and took in the tall, bronze-haired sophomore who had led the chase that afternoon. Boswick wore a huge discolored bruise over his left eye. It was hideous.
"You are a wonder, Dare!" said Boswick, admiration in his tone. "Well, cut our bonds quickly and we'll try to get out of here." This was speedily done, and a few minutes later the entire party was on the deck.
The rescued patriots leaped ashore as fast as they could, and then with Dick in the lead, they set out northward. "By keeping over pretty close to the water, I think we shall be able to keep clear of the redcoats," said Dick. "Likely," agreed Tom. "We mustn't let them capture us now." "I'll never go back to that terrible prison-pen alive!" declared Boswick. "I would much rather die fighting."
Then he shook hands with Boswick and the other spies and the soldiers and asked them about their experience in the prison-ship. According to their words, the prison-ship was a terrible place, the bottom of the hold being water-soaked and slimy, and infested by myriads of insects and worms, which crawled over the prisoners' bodies, stinging and biting them and almost driving them wild.
"We are right at hand, Dick Dare, and glad to welcome you. Your brother has told us about you, and we have been hoping you would succeed in freeing us, though we feared you might not be able to do so. But you seem to have succeeded, thank God! I am Joseph Boswick," he continued, "one of the spies sent down here by General Washington to secure information regarding the British.
There are three more spies, and seven patriot soldiers and all of us are eager to get out of this terrible hole, as you may well believe." "I can easily believe it, Mr. Boswick, and I'll have your hands free in a jiffy, and then you can climb the ladder to the deck, and we will go ashore in the boat. The two British guards are insensible, and locked in a stateroom."
Ken was further sickened to recollect that Boswick was one of the varsity pitchers. But the fellow was smiling amiably at Ken, as amiably as one eye would permit. The plot thickened about Ken. He felt his legs trembling under him. "Boswick, you forgive Ward, don't you now?" continued Dale, with a smile. "With all my heart!" exclaimed the pitcher. "To see him here would make me forgive anything."
They went direct to patriot headquarters, and were quickly ushered into the presence of the commander-in-chief. When he saw Dick and Tom, and also Boswick and the other spies and the patriot soldiers that had been prisoners, his face lighted up with pleasure. "You surely have succeeded well, Dare!" he exclaimed.
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