When you get ready to go to bed you can lie down on the sofa.
Sorry we didn't know of your coming, or we would have got our best
bed-chamber ready for you. Good-night, and pleasant dreams!"
Smiling disagreeably he slid to the door, bolted it, and
disappeared, leaving Jack more depressed, if possible, than before.
CHAPTER XX.
JACK IN CONFINEMENT.
THE anxiety of Mr. Abel Crump's family, when Jack failed to return
at night, can be imagined. They feared that he had fallen among
unscrupulous persons, of whom there is no lack in every large city,
and that some ill had come to him. The baker instituted immediate
inquiries, but was unsuccessful in obtaining any trace of his
nephew. He resolved to delay as long as possible communicating the
sad intelligence to his brother Timothy, who he knew would be quite
(sic) overwhelwed by this double blow.
In the mean time, let us see how Jack enjoyed himself. We will look
in upon him after he has been confined four days. To a youth as
active as himself, nothing could be more wearisome. It did not add
to his cheerfulness to reflect that Ida was in the power of the one
who had brought upon him his imprisonment, while he was absolutely
unable to help her. He did not lack for food. This was brought him
three times a day. His meals, in fact, were all he had to look
forward to, to break the monotony of his confinement.
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