One thing, however, he did not forget, and that was to note carefully the position of the shop in which he had been confined.
"I shall want to make another visit there," he reflected.
Meantime, as may well be supposed, Abel Harding had suffered great anxiety on account of Jack's protracted absence.

Several days had elapsed and still he was missing.
"I am afraid something has happened to Jack," he remarked to his wife on the afternoon of Jack's escape.

"I think Jack was probably rash and imprudent, and I fear, poor boy, he may have come to harm." "He may be confined by the parties who have taken his sister." "It is possible that it is no worse.

At all events, I don't think it right to keep it from Timothy any longer.

I've put off writing as long as I could, hoping Jack would come back, but I don't feel as if it would be right to hold it back any longer.