Chapter 14 IN WHICH PETER TORTUE EXPLAINS HIS INTERVENTION ON MY BEHALF

As will be readily understood, when I woke up the next morning I was sensible at once of a great relief. My anxieties and misadventures of last night were well paid for after all. I could look at my swollen wrists and say that without any hesitation, the watchers had departed from their watching, and what if they had carried away the King of Portug