 
 <prompt> **CHAPTER XXVI**

**TOGETHER ONCE MORE**

"Tom!"

"Dick and Sam!"

"How you take reach here?"

"Where others dey?"

Dis and plenty other questions dem ask and dem answer as di three Rover boys dey shake hands over and over again. Even though dem be prisoners, dem dey happy say dem dey together once more, and double happy say each person dey okay.

"Oh, these guys na first-class rascals," Dick talk after dem don settle small. "Dem don treat us anyhow. At first, dem dey give us better food, but now dem dey starve us."

"Dem dey starve una?" Tom shout.

"Yes--dem wan make us talk wetin we know," Sam add. "Dem dey very suspicious."

"Una no try escape?"

"No need to try. Di walls too strong and di door too," Dick talk. E catch Tom for hand and add for him ear: "Dem dey listen. We get hole."

"Then we go dey here," Tom talk loudly, catching di signal immediately.

"Yes, and e dey bad," Sam add for an equally loud voice. "I suppose others don go?"

"Of course," Tom talk calmly. "I be mumu to stay back--na only say I wan find una. I see letter by mistake."

One moment later, dem hear di guards waka commot, and then Tom talk di truth about di letter, and Sam and Dick carry am go di hole for di wall.

"E no dey big reach to use, yet," di eldest Rover whisper. "But we dey hope say e go big reach by to-morrow. E dey slow work, when you must dey on guard all di time."

**Numbered questions:**

1. Na how many Rover boys dey?
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Letter
6. Tom
7. No
8. Yes
9. Tomorrow?
10. Inside di wall.
11. Sam and Dick <response>: ```1. How many boys dey there?
2. Dem dey free?
3. Dem chop?
4. Dem fit run?
5. Wetin dem find by mistake?
6. Who remain?
7. Dem fit open am freely?
8. Dem plan to run?
9. When?
10. Where the hole dey?
11. Who start the hole?``` 