Say that there are some goods you wish to show them, in one of the other packs, and ask me to go and look for it." "Oh, Dick, only to think that, after all our searching, we seem to have come on him at last! It is almost too good to be true." Great as was Surajah's confidence in Dick, he had never quite shared his faith that he would find his father alive, and his non-success while with the army, and since, had completely extinguished any hopes he had entertained.

His surprise, therefore, equalled his delight at finding that, after all, it seemed probable that their search was likely to be crowned with success.
"Of course we will manage it," he said.

"I will put aside that narrow Benares cloth-of-gold work for trimmings, and you can be as long as you like looking for it.

They will be too busy examining the other things to give it a thought, after you have gone out." "I can be back at half-past eight," Dick said, "for the man told me he was locked up at that hour.

If it had not been for that, I should have arranged for him to come a little later.