We have no time to waste in further parleying." "I will not move till my question is answered," replied Leonard.
"We will see to that," said Jonas, approaching him behind, and dealing him so severe a blow on the head that he stretched him senseless on the ground?
"Shall we throw him into the pit ?" he added to Chowles.
The latter hesitated for a moment, and then said, "No, no, it is not worth while.

It may bring us into trouble.

We have no time to lose." And they then put the cart in motion, and took the way to Saint Paul's.
On coming to himself, Leonard had some difficulty in recalling what had happened; and when the whole train of circumstances rushed upon his mind, he congratulated himself that he had escaped further injury.

"When I think of the hands I have been placed in," he murmured, "I cannot but be grateful that they did not throw me into the pit, where no discovery could have been made as to how I came to an end.

But I will not rest till I have ascertained the name and rank of Nizza's persecutor.