But, I say: lanthorn and rope! I felt as if I must burst out laughing." "Yes: wasn't it comic ?" "I felt that I must tell him--poor old chap!--and as if I was trying to cheat him." "Oh no, it wasn't that! We couldn't help him taking the wrong idea.
I'd have told him at once, only it seems to spoil the fun of the thing if everybody knows.

But come on." "Wait a minute," said Vince, sitting on a stone.

"I want to look all round first without seeming to.

Perhaps old Joe's watching us." "If he is," said Mike sagely, "you won't see him, for he'll be squatted down by some block of stone, or in a furze bush.

He's a regular old fox.