He smiled down at Ned, and Ned, despite himself, smiled back.
"I know you," said he, speaking perfect English.

"You are Edward Fulton, the lad who was held in the prison with Stephen Austin, the Texan, the lad who starved himself that he might slip between the bars of his window.

There was much talk at the capital about it, and you were not without admirers.

You showed so much courage and resource that you deserved to escape, but we could not let you go." "I got lost and I was without food." "Rather serious obstacles.

They have held many a boy and man.