Estada even said he would surely recover.

And that other body?
That of Dorothy Fairfax, without doubt, yet certainly not lifeless.

Those fellows would surely never bring back to the _Namur_ the useless, dead form of one of their victims.

That was unthinkable, impossible.

If their prisoner was the girl--and who else could it be ?--she remained alive, helplessly bound to prevent either struggle, or outcry, and destined to a fate far worse than death.
This revelation struck me like a blow.