It would only be a question of time until they learned the baffling secret of the trap-door.

Her only fear lay in the possibility that she might be removed by her captors before the rescuers could accomplish her delivery.

Her bright, feverish, eager eyes, gleaming from the sunken white cheeks, appealed to Bill Briggs more than he cared to admit.

The ruffian, less hardened than his fellows, began to feel sorry for her.
Eleven o'clock found the trio anxious and ugly in their restlessness.
There was no sleep for them.

Davy visited the trap over a hundred times that night.