“And then we forgot all about it,” cried Dean.
“Yes,” cried Mark. “Oh, I say, I am sorry! What a fuss I have been making about nothing!”
Chapter Thirty Eight.
A Family Party.
“I don’t like to talk about it,” said the doctor, “but I am afraid of what those two black fellows have done.”
“Yes,” said Sir James; “there is an ugly suggestion about it. But say what you are thinking, doctor.”
The doctor was silent, and the boys listened for his next words with strained ears.
“I tell you what I think,” he said, at last. “I am afraid that it may cause us great trouble—the great trouble of a visit from a hostile party of neighbouring savages.”