Chapter 1. Two Men And A Boy
_ CHAPTER ONE. TWO MEN AND A BOY
"Steady there! Stop! Hold hard!"
"What‘s the matter, Mr Dale?"
"Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb； but if you begin like that, the trip‘s over, and we shall have to start back for England in less than a week--at least, I shall, with my luggage increased by a case containing broken boy."
There was a loud burst of hearty laughter from the manly-looking lad addressed, as he stood, with his hands clinging and his head twisted round, to look back: for he had spread-eagled himself against a nearly perpendicular scarp of rock which he had begun to climb, so as to reach a patch of wild rhododendrons.
There was another personage present, in the shape of a sturdy, muscular-looking man, whose swarthy face was sheltered by a wide-brimmed soft felt hat, very much turned up at the sides, and in whose broad band was stuck a tuft of

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