Chapter 30

Bessie felt so sorry for him, for they had not dealt him so gently and bound him so hard and tight while he had not quite recovered his senses as they had done with his fierce companion, that she felt so sorry for his obvious torment, that they turned him over and over again, that she ran to fetch a cup of water to wet his lips. When John said:

"I'm not going to leave you alone with him, though I think his leg's broken, he can't move it, and even if he comes to Heysel to hurt you, but we'll get that guy out and make sure he's tied up and then one of us will come back to you, and maybe we can find a place or something like that for you. We close it"

He said this as he looked at the thief, who stood bloody and with hatred falling upon his sullen face, and which caught Bessie's eye when it fell on him with such obvious dread that her look made him smile, and his look and smile kept the words on Bessie's lips from coming out, and she dared not say it before him. That a sound