We have been out all night." "Aha, yaas; and the _bon_ papa and mamma know vere you have come ?" "No," replied Vince quickly; "no one knows of this but us." "_Vraiment_ ?" said the captain, and he looked searchingly at Mike.

"No one knows but my young friend ?" "No," said Mike.

"We found the cave by accident; we fell into the way that leads down, and kept it a secret." "Good boy; but you can keep secret ?" "Yes," said Mike; "of course." "Aha! so can I," said the captain, laughing boisterously.

"Suppose I send you home my vay, eh?
No one know ze vay to ze cavern." "I don't understand you," said Mike sturdily.
"_Ma foi_! vy should you understand?
I send you home, and nobody know nosings.

_Les gens_--ze peoples--look for you; they do not find you, and zey say--Aha, _pauvres garcons_, zey go and make a falls off ze cliff, and ve nevaire see them any more!" Mike turned pale; Vince laughed.
"He does not mean it, Mike," said the boy.