Other people were concerned in it, as well as myself.

I have made up my mind to tell you both, because I know that I can depend upon your promises to keep it an absolute secret." "This sounds mysterious indeed," O'Sullivan said.

"However, you have our promises.

O'Neil and I will be as silent as the grave." "Well, then, you know how you were chaffing me, the other day, about finding Mademoiselle Pointdexter ?" "You don't mean to say that you have found her, Kennedy ?" O'Neil exclaimed incredulously.
"That is what I mean to say, though found is hardly the word, since I was not looking for her, or even thinking of her, at the time.

Still, in point of fact, I accidentally came across the place where she was hidden away, and after a sharp skirmish, in which Callaghan and I each had to kill two men, we carried her off, and delivered her safely to her father this morning." The two young officers looked hard at Desmond, to discover if he was speaking seriously, for his tone was so quiet, and matter of fact, that they could scarce credit that he had passed through such an exciting adventure; and the three were so accustomed to hoax each other, that it struck them both as simply an invention on the part of their comrade, so absolutely improbable did it seem to them.
"Sure you are trying to hoax us, Kennedy," O'Sullivan said.
"You could not blame me, if I were," Desmond said, with a smile, "considering the cock-and-bull stories that you are constantly trying to palm off on me.