“Up above your chamber,” was the reply. “There is a place where the stones are broken away.”
“Then I am watched,” thought Humphrey, as the announcement recalled the captain.
“Can you see me?” he asked.
“I cannot see you where you are now, but I could if you went and lay down upon your couch.”
“Then I’ll go there,” said Humphrey, crossing the great chamber to throw himself on the blankets and skins. “Now, then, what do you want with Dinny?”
“I knew the captain had gone to sea,” said the voice, evasively; “but I did not know Kelly had been taken too. He cannot be, without letting me know.”
“Can you come down and talk to me!”
“No; you are too well watched.”
“Then how did you get here?”
“I crept through the forest and climbed up,” was the reply. “I can see you now.”