"Name?"
"John Craig, M.D."
"It is good. Come."
He is thrilled with a new hope. Can this mean escape? or does the clever Pauline play a new game with them?
"Shall we go, Sharpe?" he asks, in a whisper.
"Go—well, I reckon we'd be fools to let such a chance as this slip," returns the little man, instantly.
So they proceed to follow their strange guide, out of the dungeon door and along the narrow passage after her.
Again John suspects, and bends his head close to that of his comrade.
"Professor."
"Well, I'm wide awake. What is it you want?" returns the other.