Sunday, Midnight
So Trenfield wrote his old comrade a letter of farewell , and , taking a canvas bag , he filled it with all sorts of articles likely to be useful on a long boat voyage . Kenna took the bag , together with material for a sail , away with him at night and placed it in the spot agreed upon with May . He had already given Tom a tomahawk and an adze with which to make some oars and a mast . On the fourth night after his visit to Kenna 's house , Tom May again came through the bush , and went to Little Nobby 's , for when Ruth 's father went to the hiding-place in the morning with a breaker of water and a large bundle of dried fish , he found that the bag and the sail-cloth were gone , and on a small piece of white driftwood which lay on the ground these words were written in charcoal : -- ' _ Sunday , Midnight ? _ ' By this Kenna knew that the three men meant to come for the provisions and water at the time mentioned . It was then Friday , and he had much to do to get all in readiness ; for Little Nobby 's was quite six miles distant from his house , and he could only make his journeys to and fro with great secrecy , for the constables were still searching the coastal region for May . But , aided by Billy , the aboriginal , he managed to have everything in readiness early on Sunday night .