Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece

-call it what you will-of the thr

. Harvey were

attempt was made by the villains made them i

s that the Prince of Limbi was sent into the town to take rooms fo

ay they all qu

a large straggling building, right at the extremity of the

lar when they went there in hi

be quite safe

his excellency the Englishman that there was not

arty really troubled themselves

the masquerade, hardly a per

e said there was literally

to the gloom might have seen three figures creeping quietly down the street

id one of the three, a

fortable quarters, while I am an outcast,"

can you desire than my cave, in which yo

ou have never tasted the

ch the better are you through

us unite in thought and action, and to

don't want to quarrel wit

d especially t

t loud but deep; you'll awak

to? Has he not beaten

nd shame? Yet I am content to bide my

Captain Mathias; "there is the house wher

it, how still the air is; the whole stree

nd I care not if all the s

not if you are unsucc

w s

against us, and I fancy these Inglesi, with their boys

exclaim

consider how to get into

the door

ve you

t through that plank as easi

larm the whole household by doing so, w

how about t

said Hunston, "unle

g can be found in the town,

use. Captain, you have eyes like a cat or an owl; just glan

ooked in al

ouse is stirr

ently away from the shelter of the friendly doorway, where the foregoing

ourse, to cross the road, which was tolera

quainted with her business-was partly hidden behind some clouds, though not so entire

ch as they move, moves also from an

ke them, it stalks along slowly and ere

as that of the panthe

, if it has any

stance, whatever it may be, keeps the same pace, til

side looking towards the hotel, but the shadow s

d then the Greek brigand pro

being interr

e," said Toro; "I am a

, "there are lights mov

f-an-hour aft

d n

f-past ten

rs," gro

our than fail,

ious rate at which my blood boils in my veins? In

u may have a good chance

even usurer charged his hapless client. I won

side of the first corridor, wher

tly and positively as though he hi

ause he c

ey the second; the third is a double-bedded apartment, one co

ty exact information,

that does not come to my ears. One

not get a k

it opens th

mself a choice vocabulary of Italian oaths, occasionally shaking h

ned to his

ose to pass the two ho

hall be free from observation. We can smoke our pipes t

cautious," s

along,

off in the direction of the t

here he had been crouching, and stood looking afte

shadow, who was in good truth as substa

bably half-a-dozen murders would have been committed. Howev

d, who had been playing spy on the

n deep thought f

ould like to get this business over without alarming M

or of the hotel, and pu

e minutes, a light shone through

is th

in search of

you a

es

unbolted, and the

of the hotel in b

't kno

. I have important news fo

eem inclined to call the proprie

son; but if you don't quickly bring him, I'll ring half a dozen of

went to the proprietor's room, and soon returne

n private, sir," said the traveller, with a s

u may go to be

pantry, where he slept, and the proprietor of the

" he said as he returned. "But now,

he had heard, and great was t

e do? Send fo

r a short si

N

. Why, these scoundrels have already made one attem

t a guttural voice

Ike

ushy ol

hy ole so

ger, be quiet," s

se people?"

on the Harkaway party," sai

make, which is that we put these brigands to flight in a ludicrous manner, which will annoy them more

that there is

e. Please call the tw

g it up in the kitchen, were called an

surprise, "what you do here? Am you g

nd, as young Jack Harkaway named it. Yes, my revenge is complete. The pirate di

arfully, as he listened t

like to tar and fea

is a good idea. Listen-but first show

corridor, and pointed out the sleepi

otel-keeper, the result of which was that the latter retired, leaving Sunday

to spare, they set to work with a will

the wall an iron hook, to which

lower regions and hunted

was a kind of paint shop, full of

to cook de goose ob de

, pointing to some iron vessels resembling pails

something like sugar loaves, with th

its place, but it was evident that if the bottom was re

tion, pronounced them "

t fill them

hot; in nodder put dis here paint, also wer

oo

rge fireplace in the kitchen, and

ion to the heating of sev

ar, while Petrus attended t

clock pointed to half-past twelve, a

en placed in the iron pails with the movable bottoms,

int over Harvey's, and the tar over that i

a pulley, the end being conveyed to a recess where

rus each had a six-cham

old-fashioned clock as it p

prevailed both insi

, after a short pause, a slight grat

that the moon shone through a narrow wi

was watching, saw three dark figure

a tall, bulk

k, and the third wa

he least hesitation, proceeded to Jefferson's door, the Greek placing himself outside

gnal, evidently intending

unston, in a

echoed

sought to destroy, Petrus pulled the three strings he held in his han

drenched a

curses!"

ook here

could n

filling eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, saturatin

life of the villain who has done thi

paint had destroyed all his senses save

ded, managed to keep a certain

e your lives!" he exclaimed. "

red to drag

ver, another actor a

was

been doomed to share Sunday's apartments, where

nion (brother, Jefferson said), he came down, c

recognise T

oe such a bolstering as Toro had never before heard of,

ac

f feathers enveloped the unhappy son of Italy, who

e a downy cove

p his companions by the hand, and dragged

ise, rushed out, in scanty costume, it is true, but fully

e matter?"

xplained

ired two shots after the fugitives

nmates of the house, they retired to bed, but not before Harkaway and his friends had shaken Pe