That's one strand o' the rope gone; there's two more.

Speak!' He raised the knife threateningly.
'It's under that big flat stone near the spring in the Gaol Quarry.' The lie came almost involuntarily from the boy's lips in instantaneous response to a new impulse.

But he was doomed to disappointment.
'Good!' ejaculated the man.

'Now, you go with me.

I don't trust you; you're too smart a kid to be trusted.' As he spoke he twisted the gag into Dick's mouth again.