I was like this when I spoke to you through the window a fortnight since, but you could not then see my figure.
"Are you awake, Harry ?" he asked in English, as he approached the pallet.
"Yes, I am awake; at least I think so.

Is it really you, Stanley ?" "It is I, sure enough, man," Stanley replied, as he pressed the thin hands of the invalid.

"Did not Runkoor tell you that I had been here before ?" But Harry had broken down, altogether.

The surprise and delight was too much for him, in his weak state.
"Of course," Stanley went on quietly, "I knew that he could not speak English, but I thought that he might make signs." "He did make a sign.

Each time he gave me fruit, he said 'Sahib Brooke,' pointed outside, and waved his arms about; but I could not make head or tail of what he meant.