You see, there is not much chance of my lighting upon another white slave girl, and having to bring her down here; and I shall go in for a long, steady search for my father." "I don't want you to find another slave girl, Dick," she said earnestly, "not even if it brought you down here again.

I should not like that at all." "Why not, Annie ?" "Oh, you might like her ever so much better than me.

I should like you to do all sorts of brave things, Dick, and to save people as you have saved me, but I would rather there was not another girl." Dick laughed.
"Well, I don't suppose that there is much chance of it.

Besides, I can't turn my uncle's palace into a Home for Lost Girls." Two days before Dick and Surajah started again, the reply from the military secretary arrived.

It stated that the time and circumstances pointed out that the place besieged and forced to surrender, eight years before, was Corsepan; and this was indeed rendered a certainty, by the fact that the officer in command was Captain Mansfield.