Chapter One.
Two Men and a Boy.
“Steady there! Stop! Hold hard!”
“What’s the matter, Mr Dale?”
“Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb; but if you begin like that, the trip’s over, and we shall have to start back for England in less than a week—at least, I shall, with my luggage increased by a case containing...
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