As for the risk--and there is some danger, more than people thinks, now and then--he liked that the best of it.

He was put out at losing Jim; but he believed he couldn't escape, and told me so in a friendly way.

'He's inside a circle and he can't get away, you mark my words,' he said, two or three times.

'We have every police-station warned by wire, within a hundred miles of here, three days ago.

There's not a man in the colony sharper looked after than Master Jim is this minute.' 'Then you only heard about us three days ago ?' I said.
'That's as it may be,' he answered, biting his lip.