"I'll be back as soon as I can." Away he raced at a dog-trot, chuckling.

The contrast between bulky Sambo and little Nicolas and the big negro's comic fear of the slim little fellow kept Reade laughing.
"But where on earth did Nicolas learn that trick ?" Tom wondered.

"I shall have to get him to show it to me.

Plainly that trick is worth more than all the muscle that I spent so many years in piling on." Tom headed his course for the shore end of the wall.

Here he would find men in abundance.