“Yis. Th’ dirruty rascal didn’t know Oi had me oie on him all th’ toime.”
“In the excitement that followed, you lost sight of the one you followed there.”
“Vale,” said Hans, “I don’d peen aple to keep vatch uf him afder efrypody shumps ub all aroundt.”
“That was most unfortunate. If you could have followed him without his knowing it, he might have led you straight to his master.”
“Thot’s phwat Oi thought, me b’y.”
Frank thought the matter over for a few moments, and then said:
“It seems to me that there is a probability of this Lord Stanford being in San Francisco, although Inza’s father may have taken her away. If his servant had left him, it is not likely an attempt would have been made on Barney’s life. The Chinaman’s master must have told him to look out that he was not followed by Barney, and the heathen was going to stop it somehow.”
“It seems rather remarkable to me,” said Jack, “that they should care whether Barney followed them or not, for it is likely they now have the girl under such close watch that there is absolutely no chance for her to run away again.”
“She may have been forced into a marriage already,” Browning said.
“You do not know her,” declared Frank. “She is a girl of such spirit that her father will find it extremely difficult to compel her to marry against her will.”