You may trust me with your message, Dan." "I suppose it would not be the proper thing for me to see her once before I go; just for one minute, with you standing by her, that I might--that she might--" "No," answered Faith, though it grieved her to say it; "we must not think of that, Dan.

It could do you no good, and it might do her harm.
But if you have any message, to be useful to her--" "The useful part of it must be through you, miss, and not sent to her at all, I think, or it would be very impertinent.

The kind part is to give her my good-bye, and say that I would die to help her.

And the useful part is for yourself.

For God's sake, miss, do keep Miss Dolly out of the way of Squire Carne! He hath a tongue equal to any woman, with the mind of a man beneath it.