Willis and Fritz followed as fast as they could.
When they all three reached the bottom of the stairs.
"If Captain Littlestone is here, Willis," said Jack, "he could not
have been on board the _Boudeuse_."
"That is true, Master Jack."
"In that case, Great Rono, you must have been dreaming in the
corvette as well as in the Yankee."
"No," insisted Willis, "it was no dream, I am certain of that."
"Explain the riddle, then."
"I cannot do that just at present, but it may be cleared up by-and-by,
like all the mysteries and miracles that surround us."
FOOTNOTES:
[I] This circumstance is historical, and will be found at length in
the Memoirs of Napoleon, by Amedee Goubard.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CAPTAIN LITTLESTONE IS FOUND, AND THE REV. MR. WOLSTON IS SEEN FOR THE
FIRST TIME.
Jack, on arriving at the hotel, ascertained the number of the room in
which Captain Littlestone was located. In his hurry to see his old
friend, the young man did not stop to knock at the door, but entered
without ceremony, with Fritz and Willis at his heels. They found
themselves in the presence of two gentlemen, one of whom sat with his
face buried in his hands, the other was reading what appeared to be a
small bible.
The latter was a young man seemingly of about twenty-four or
twenty-five years of age.
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