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Mole stepped forward, looking just a little sheepish. "Mr. Mole!" "Mr. Mole!" exclaimed a dozen voices in chorus. "Yes, my friends," said the old gentleman, stepping forward with his well-known modesty, "it is even so; your much-wronged Mole." "Tell us how it occurred," said Harkaway.
"Look there," cried Hunston, wildly, pointing to where the two boys stood still in contemplation of the scene, "Look there; see, they are begging for mercy for me." "Who? Where?" demanded Harkaway, in considerable astonishment "Your own son, your own boy; don't you see him?" pursued Hunston, wildly, "Look. No It is my own fancy, my fear-stricken mind, which conjures up these horrible visions.
Ever so many hinderances have been created to bar the killing a fox, as for instance that you shouldn't knock him on the head with a brick-bat, all of which had to Mr. Harkaway the force of a religion. The laws of hunting are so many that most men who hunt cannot know them all. But no law had ever been written, or had become a law by the strength of tradition, which he did not know.
Harkaway under the impression that he was going about the vessel, and making preparations generally for their departure. They were one and all anxious to be gone from the place, which was for evermore associated in their minds with the mishaps of the last few days. When Harvey had been absent forty-eight hours, they grew anxious.
The Harkaway party were not armed at all. The Greeks fell back and made attempts to re-form in something like good order. But Jefferson saw the danger, and he followed them up closely. Jack and Dick Harvey were at his heels. Neither of our old friends were inferior to the bold Jefferson in courage; but they did not possess his great advantages of size and strength.
I asked him for once when, early in our acquaintance, we had asked him what we were to call him, he had answered with a laugh: "O! call me Jack Jack Harkaway." We had laughed, reminding him of the schoolboy hero of that name and he had answered: "Never mind. One name is as good as another. That is my name when I go on adventures. Tell me your adventure names.
"By Heaven!" ejaculated Hunston; "we are lost." Quasimodo, who had detected one of the devils, was Magog Brand. The audacity of the fearless Greek had carried him through so far, but Quasimodo had spoilt him at last. A number of gentlemen in the company began to inquire very minutely into the affair. Prominent amongst them was Harkaway.
An ugly scrawl upon a dirty piece of paper, and with it was a small parcel. "We despise your threats, and laugh you to scorn. That you may know how little we are to be trifled with, we send you their ears in proof that we have kept our word. By this hour to-morrow the two boys die, unless you pay down the sum as fixed upon by us, both in manner and in amount." Jack Harkaway turned faint and sick.
"The villains!" cried poor Harkaway. "Oh, villains!" But he was powerless to help them. He knew well enough that, do what he would, he could not hope to get the boys back without paying, and paying through the nose too. Nor indeed did he desire to try to achieve this. The only question was, would they deliver up their prisoners, once they had received the five hundred pounds? Perhaps.
A sickening, horrible sight to contemplate. "Four." "Hah!" "Come away," exclaimed Harkaway; "come away from this. It makes me sick and faint." "Yes," said Jefferson; "it is not to my taste." "Nor mine." "Nor mine," said Dick. "This may be Justice, my friend," said Jack Harkaway "but it isn't English it is not humanity." "Five." A cry came from the prisoner.
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