22/42 Since they went back, I have been up in Mysore with my friend Surajah, and, thank God, at last we have found you!" "Thank God, indeed, my boy. I do thank Him, not only that you have found me, but that your mother, whom I had never hoped to see again, is alive and well; and also, that He has given me so good a son." "And now, Father, about your escape. In the first place, have you given your parole not to try to get away ?" Captain Holland was himself now. At the fort, where I was for six years, there was no possibility of escape; and as I was a long time, before I began to speak the language, even if I had got away I could never have made my way through the country. Then the governor--it was the same we have here--took me with him to Kistnagherry. |