"Shall a gentleman's son stoop to beg the good-will of a lot of young Arabs?
Not if he knows himself; and he thinks he does.

They have found me out, somehow, and I don't care if they have.

I may as well throw off the mask entirely.

I'll let them see that, while they are prisoners, and bound hand and foot, I am at liberty to go and come when I please." When Arthur said this, he was gazing into the fire, and consequently did not see the significant glances which the robber chief exchanged with his men.

It might have astonished him to know that he was not free to go and come when he pleased; and that Pierre, in spite of all his promises to the contrary, intended to demand twenty thousand dollars for him, as well as for the others.
When Frank and his friends had eaten their supper, they began to make preparations for the night, by collecting a pile of dried leaves and grass, over which they spread their blankets, placing the saddles at the head of the bed, to serve as pillows.