“No, I’ll be jiggered if I will!”
“Then I am afraid you will have to remain here.”
“If you will pay three thousand scudi we will release you and the boy,” said the interpreter.
“What, and leave me here?” exclaimed the American.
“It is your own fault, signor.”
After considerable conversation a plan was agreed upon, in which Amos Sanderson unwillingly acquiesced.
CHAPTER XXXI. WALTER CUNNINGHAM’S MISSION.
It was decided that Cunningham himself should go to Naples, carrying with him not only his own letter of credit, but Amos Sanderson’s as well. He was to draw three thousand scudi on his own account, and two thousand on account of the American, and come back with this sum, on the receipt of which the three would be released.