“Are the prisoners in one of these old temples!”
“Yes. On the other side of the big pyrymid yonder, sor; but ye can’t get to them widout going a long way round.”
“Are there many women here besides that Mistress Greenheys?”
“Sure, yis, there is a dozen of ’em, sor. Not half enough, but just enough to kape the min quarrelling; and there’s been no end of bother about the women being kept in the place.”
Chapter Twenty Five.
Plans of Escape.
Humphrey Armstrong was weaker from his wounds than he believed; but the change from being shut up in the dim temple-chamber with the great stone idol for company to the comparatively free open air of the forest clearing rapidly restored the elasticity of his nature, and gave him ample opportunities for studying the state of affairs.
He found that the buccaneers went out but seldom, and that when expeditions were made they would be fairly divided. At one time the captain would be in command, at another the lieutenant, so that their settlement was never left unprotected.