Either they had murdered him too, or carried him off.

The news spread, and the whole city was in commotion about his fate.

It was credible enough that persons capable of committing such a crime on such an inoffensive person as the testimony showed poor Sambo, would be capable also of throwing the life of a child after that of the man to protect their own.

The city was searched from end to end, from side to side, and from cellar to garret.

Not a trace of him was to be found--but indeed Gibbie had always been easier to find than to trace, for he had no belongings of any sort to betray him.