PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT.
The next morning Godfrey and Mikail were by the doctor's orders carried to the hospital and placed in a comfortable and well-arranged ward. "You won't have to be here many days," the doctor said when he came round the ward. "I only had you brought here because the air is sweeter and better than it is in that room you were in." An hour later the governor with a clerk came in. Mikail was first called upon for his statement, which was written down by the clerk.
"Had you any reason for supposing that the man had any special enmity against you?" the governor asked.
"Only because of that flogging he had for the row in the ward last week, sir."
"Ah, yes, he was one of those who attacked you then and was flogged; that accounts for it."
Then Godfrey gave his account of what had happened.
"Did you observe anything that made you specially watchful?" the governor asked.
"I thought perhaps one of them might try to take revenge on Mikail, sir. One or two of them were very sullen and surly, and would, I thought, do him harm if they had the chance; but I suspected this man more than the others because he seemed so unnaturally pleasant, and as I had heard him boasting about the things for which he is here, I thought he was more dangerous than those who grumbled and threatened."
The governor nodded. "Yes, he is a thorough-paced villain; you have done very well, young man, and I shall not forget it."