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Chapter 26 Dr. Robinson

 Time passed. Every hour seemed to poor Jack to contain at least double the number of minutes. Moreover, he was getting hungry.

 
A horrible suspicion flashed across his mind.
 
"The wretches can't mean to starve me, can they?" he asked himself. Despite his constitutional courage he could not help shuddering at the idea.
 
He was unexpectedly answered by the opening of the door, and the appearance of the old man.
 
"Are you getting hungry, my dear sir?" he inquired, with a disagreeable smile upon his features.
 
"Why am I confined here?" demanded Jack, angrily.
 
"Why are you confined? Really, one would think you didn't find your quarters comfortable."
 
"I am so far from finding them agreeable, that I insist upon leaving them immediately," returned Jack.
 
"Then all you have got to do is to walk through that door."
 
"You have locked it."
 
"Why, so I have," said the old man, with a leer.
 
"I insist upon your opening it."
 
"I shall do so when I get ready to go out, myself."
 
"I shall go with you."
 
"I think not."
 
"Who's to prevent me?" said Jack, defiantly.
 
"Who's to prevent you?"
 
"Yes; you'd better not attempt it. I should be sorry to hurt you, but I mean to go out. If you attempt to stop me, you must take the consequences."
 
"I am afraid you are a violent young man. But I've got a man who is a match for two like you."
 
The old man opened the door.
 
"Samuel, show yourself," he said.
 
A brawny negro, six feet in height, and evidently very powerful, came to the entrance.
 
"If this young man attempts to escape, Samuel, what will you do?"
 
"Tie him hand and foot," answered the negro.
 
"That'll do, Samuel. Stay where you are."
 
He closed the door and looked triumphantly at our hero.
 
Jack threw himself sullenly into a chair.
 
"Where is the woman that brought me here?" he asked.
 
"Peg? Oh, she couldn't stay. She had important business to transact, my young friend, and so she has gone. She commended you to our particular attention, and you will be just as well treated as if she were here."
 
This assurance was not calculated to comfort Jack.
 
"How long are you going to keep me cooped up here?" he asked, desperately, wishing to learn the worst at once.
 
"Really, my young friend, I couldn't say. I don't know how long it will be before you are cured."
 
"Cured?" repeated Jack, puzzled.
 
The old man tapped his forehead.
 
"You're a little affected here, you know, but under my tre............
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