I would make for that town instead of Lucknow if you will go with me, and I could leave you there in safety till these troubles are over; I am going to take another horse as well as my own, and two would be as likely to escape as one." "Thank you for the offer, Captain Forster," she said coldly, "but I decline it.

My place is here with my uncle and the others." "Why is it ?" he asked passionately.

"If you love me, your place is surely with me; and you do love me, Isobel, do you not?
Surely I have not been mistaken." Isobel was silent for a moment.
"You were mistaken, Captain Forster," she said, after a pause.

"You paid me attentions such as I had heard you paid to many others, and it was pleasant.

That you were serious I did not think.