I thought it was awful at first, but I don't seem to mind so much now you are with me." "It is a comfort to have someone to speak to," Jack said, "yet I wish you were not here, Percy; I can't do you any good, and I shall never cease blaming myself for having brought you into this scrape.

I don't know much more about the affair than you do.

The guns were fired so close to us that my face was scorched with one of them, and almost at the same instant I got a lick across my cheek with a sword.

I had just time to hit at one of them, and then almost at the same moment I got two or three other blows, and down I went; they threw themselves on the top of me and tied and gagged me in no time.

Then I was tied to a long bamboo, and two fellows put the ends on their shoulders and went off with me through the fields.