Lew, you look so strange.

Tell me, is it because we went off in the canoe and have been in danger ?" "Betty, Isaac has been captured again," said the Colonel.
"Oh, no, no, no," cried Betty in agonized tones, and wringing her hands.

Then, excitedly, "Something can be done; you must pursue them.

Oh, Lew, Mr.Clarke, cannot you rescue him?
They have not had time to go far." "Isaac went to the chestnut grove this morning.

If he had stayed there he would not have been captured.