"Watch 'em! I want to fetch somebody--want to know who that stranger is.

You don't know him ?" "Never seen him before," replied Dick.

"I say!--come quietly back--don't give it away.

I want to know what it's all about." Bryce squeezed the lad's arm by way of assurance and made his way back through the bushes.

He wanted to get hold of Harker, and at once, and he hurried round to the old man's house and without ceremony walked into his parlour.