The dispatch boat will be along in a day or two, and I will send you up the river on her.

I think it is nothing more than right that you should go home for a couple of months, at least, for you have been through a good deal for a young man of your age." The thought that he was soon to see his home again did Frank more good than all the medicine the doctor had given him; and, by the time the mail steamer arrived, he was able to walk about.

In two weeks they arrived at Cairo.

The steamer had scarcely touched the wharf-boat before Archie, who had seen his cousin standing on deck, sprang on board.
We can not describe the meeting.

To Archie it was like finding one risen from the dead; for he had heard of Frank's capture, and had never expected to see him again.