"Must I then sit here and do nothing till I die ?" Leonard shrugged his shoulders and went.

He could not blame the dwarf, who after all was a savage and looked at things as a savage would, notwithstanding Francisco's earnest efforts to convert him.

He sometimes wished, so deep was his depression, that he also was a savage and could do likewise.
But the worst of their trials is still to be told.

For the first week the Settlement men stayed in the palace, their fears and the rumours that had reached them of the terrible fate of their two lost companions keeping them quiet.

By degrees, however, this dread wore off, and one afternoon, wearied with the sameness of their life, they yielded to the solicitations of some men who spoke to them through the bars of the great gate, and went out in a body without obtaining Leonard's permission.