"My boy!" said Cyrus Harding, "you ran a great danger, but, perhaps, without that, the poor creature would have still hidden himself from your search, and we should not have had a new companion."
–¡Hijo mío! –dijo Ciro Smith–, has corrido un verdadero peligro; pero, de lo contrario, este pobre hombre se habría ocultado y no tendríamos un compañero más.