“Bart, forgive me.”
“Forgive you! Ah, yes! I forgive.”
“I have need of all your aid. Captain Armstrong has escaped.”
“Not far.”
“No; but there is worse news. Mazzard has brained his keeper, and is at liberty.”
“Hah!” ejaculated Bart.
“And those two may meet.”
“Always of him,” muttered Bart, sadly. “Well, skipper, what is it to be now, when he is captured?”
“Death.”
“To Captain Armstrong?”