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"I doubt not; meanwhile, I offer myself as the leader, for several reasons: firstly, I know these Harkaways well, and am more fit to cope with them than those who have never met them." Tomaso laughed. "I doubt that," he said; "why, by your own showing, you have never gained any signal successes with them." "No, but I start where you would have to begin; I am armed by experience, which you lack."
Diana was afraid to exhibit too much interest in the doings of the Harkaways, lest she should arouse suspicion. So she simply nodded, and listened most anxiously to what the garrulous old woman would say next. "So very careless; anyone might get into their house by the side door," said the ancient dame. "Well, it is their own fault if they are robbed." "True.
"You swear to devote your life to the destruction of your enemies," said Hunston. "I do," responded the new brigand, with fervour. "Enough. What is your name?" "Geoffrey Martin." "Geoffrey Martin," repeated Toro; "the name has a ring about it that I like. Now understand, the end of the Harkaways draws near; one has already paid the forfeit." "Who?" cried the stranger. "Two!" said a voice.
They pay a certain respect to us hold us in some fear, in fact and the boys, who are regular rovers, like their parents and friends, have only permission to cruise about in their little yacht." "How did you learn this?" "From Marietta, the servant of the Harkaways." "Hah!"
The British ambassador might be influenced by people of the rank and position of the Harkaways. This granted, it was easy enough for his excellency to waive legal forms and ceremonies there, and get Hunston transferred to the safe keeping of the English authorities. At this point Hunston could not repress a shudder. And why? He thought of what must necessarily follow.
And rubbing his hands and chuckling, he rambled on. He paused presently upon coming to a long, wooden landing stage, jutting out a long way to sea. Arrived at the head of the jetty, he looked out earnestly seaward, in the endeavour to trace out which of the many ships in the offing could be the Harkaways' vessel.
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Hunston, in a boisterous and forced manner; "quite a sermon. Preaching is a new quality in the Harkaways. It is unfortunate that you are to be cut off in your early youth. You would soon bloom into an odd mixture of Puritan and bully." But he could not provoke his victim.
Artifices of every kind were tried to accomplish it, but the Harkaways had foreseen that no stone would be left unturned by the murderous friends of the captured robbers; and they knew the good old-fashioned saying "forewarned, forearmed." The prison in which they we re confined was situated at the waterside, and it was approachable by boat, where the entrance was beneath a low, vaulted archway.
The reader will doubtless bear it in mind, since with it is connected one of the most startling episodes of Jack Harkaway's history, in his voyage round the world with young Jack. It was at the hotel in New York that the Harkaways first met with Sunday, too, for here they were the means of rescuing him from the brutal violence of the ruffian Toro.
"Five thousand francs reward," he said to his newly-made comrades generally; "you have only to turn me over to the Harkaways, and you can make a small fortune." "You'll only find good men and true here," said Hunston. Geoffrey Martin turned upon the latter. "All?" There was a hidden significance in his tone which thrilled Hunston.
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