Go in, keep quiet, persuade them to bolt anywhere on earth by daylight to-morrow.

Then go home, eat a good supper, and come across to me; and if I'm out, I'll leave word where." Frank went back again; he found Campbell, who had had his cue from Tom, urging immediate removal as strongly as he could, without declaring the extent of the danger.

Valencia was for sending instantly for a fly to the nearest town, and going to stay at a watering-place some forty miles off.

Elsley was willing enough at heart, but hesitated; he knew not, at the moment, poor fellow, where to find the money.

His wife knew that she could borrow of Valencia; but she, too, was against the place.