"What, Hunston escaped!"
"Impossible."
"Indeed it is not."
"But how?—when? Why Hunston any more than the others?"
"We can only give a guess," said the governor, "but it is a good one. His gaoler has disappeared with him; the rest is not a difficult matter to guess."
It was quite true.
Hunston, Harkaway's old schoolfellow and bitter foe, had once more contrived to elude justice.
Both had disappeared—prisoner and gaoler with him.
"I'm sorry for that," said Harkaway, "for it would have been a good thing to take care of that double-dyed traitor, but no matter, we shall have nothing to fear from him now; we have had enough of this place."
"Are we, then, to leave Greece, dad?"