Part 70 (1/2)
She must know a precious lot, or she never would have dared to say what she did”
”But how could she get out of the park?” said Clark ”That wall is too high to cliates are all locked”
”It's rounds yet”
Potts shook his head
”After what she toldWhy, didn't she tell us of criin to feel shaky, and it is the girl that has ed his hands deep into his pockets, and walked up and down The others sat in gloo nurse of hers have told her any thing?” asked John
”She didn't know any thing to tell”
”Mrs Compton must have blown, then”
”Mrs Compton didn't know I tell you that there is not one hu that knohat she told us besides ourselves and her How the devil she picked it up I don't know”
”I didn't like the cut of her fro thatin her that would soerous I didn't want you to send for her”
”Well, the ive up the search, are you?” asked Clark
”Give it up! Not I”
”We et her back”
”Yes; our only safety now is in catching her again at all hazards”
There was a long silence
”Twenty years ago,” said Potts, moodily, ”the _Vishnu_ drifted away, and since the tiirl did”
”And she is only twenty years old,” rejoined John
”I tell you, lads, you've got the devil to do hen you tackle her,”
reht it out and crush her”
”Twenty-three years,” continued Potts, in the saloomy tone--”twenty-three years have passed since I was captured with my followers No one has mentioned that since No one in all the world knows that I airl”
”Shethat we have done,” said Clark
”Of course sheour Brandon enterprise,” said John
”And including your penh, lad, to stretch a neck”
”Come,” said Potts, ”don't let us talk of this, any how”