I was sorry for you, too, and glad when they let you out.

Both of you are old playmates of mine, but Arthur--" I had to tell her; I had to dash her small hopes to the ground.
"Forgive me, Ella," I said, "but I cannot carry him this message or even get it to him secretly.

I am watched myself; I know it, though I have never really detected the man doing it." "Oh!" she ejaculated, terror-stricken at once.

"Is there any one here, behind these trees or in the street on the other side of the hedge-row ?" I hastened to reassure her.
"No, no.

If I've been followed, it was not so near as that.