I think it more likely that, when he finds Father has got fairly away, he will take no steps at all.

They have no cavalry here, and he will know, well enough, that there will be no chance of our being tracked and overtaken by footmen, if we had but a couple of hours' start." "I think that is so, Dick.

He has done his duty in keeping your father a prisoner, but I don't think he will be, at heart, at all sorry that he has made his escape." "I think, Surajah, I will write a letter to him, and leave it here, to be found after we have got away, thanking him in Father's name for the kindness that he has always shown him, saying who I am, why I came here, and asking his pardon for the deception that I have been obliged to play upon him.

He is a good old fellow, and I should think it would please him." "I should think it would," Surajah agreed.
"I will do up my brace of pistols in a packet, and put them with the note," Dick went on, "and will say, in it, that I hope he will accept them as a token of our esteem and gratitude.

They are well-finished English pistols, and I have no doubt he will prize them.