“Yes, sir; and those chaps you can see there with the lanterns are coming back from carrying him up to the Residency.”
“Poor chap! Poor fellow!” said Archie. “Well, go on.”
“That’s all, sir. Don’t you see they’re tying the boat up for the night? I thought you would be satisfied if I picked up something.”
“Too much this time, Pete,” said Archie sadly.
“Too much, sir?”
“Yes. It’s all bad.”
“But you said I was to bring everything, sir.”
“Yes, yes; that’s quite right. But it is so disheartening. They must have taken her up somewhere; for aught we know, poor girl! she may be a prisoner somewhere in one of the places near that elephant-shed.”
“Near what elephant-shed, sir?” said Peter rather vacantly.
“Why, where we were prisoners.”