"I want a true answer, boy!"
"I have told you the truth."
"You know as well as I what brought Robert Menden to this island and this locality."
"Well?"
"I want to know just where he went yesterday afternoon."
"I don't know. I wasn't with him, and I haven't seen him since yesterday morning."
"He didn't return to your camp?"
"I can't say that either. I left my friends, wandered off, and got lost in these woods, and I've been here all night, although not in this swamp."
"Humph!" Farvel mused for a moment and sat down on a fallen tree. "Can you tell me how Menden got to Porto Rico?"
"Aren't you going to help me out?"