Thank thee.' Then she went to tell George and Eliza what Tom Loker had said.
They were indeed very grateful to him, and very glad that they had not left him, as his own friends had done, to die by the roadside.
So next day Eliza cut off all her beautiful black hair, and dressed herself like a boy.
'Don't I make a pretty young fellow ?' she said to George, laughing and blushing at the same time.
'You always will be pretty,' said George gravely, 'do what you will.' 'What makes you so sober ?' asked Eliza, kneeling on one knee, and laying her hand on his.

'We are within twenty-four hours of Canada, they say.
Only a day and a night on the lake, and then--oh, then!' 'O Eliza,' said George, holding her fast, 'that is just it.

To be so near liberty, to be almost in sight of it--and then if we lost it.

O Eliza, I should die.' 'Don't fear,' said Eliza hopefully.

'The good Lord would not have brought us so far if He didn't mean to save us.