I got the orders." "They're old orders," insisted Ruth Tolliver, "and they have been changed." "Not to my knowing," replied the other, less certain in his manner.
Ruth seized the critical moment to say: "Walk on, Caroline.

If he blocks your way--" She did not need to finish the sentence, for, as Caroline started on, the guard slunk sullenly to one side of the corridor.
"It ain't my doings," he said.

"But they got two bosses in this joint, and one of them is a girl.

How can a gent have any idea which way he ought to step in a pinch?
Go on, Miss Smith, but you'll be answered for!" They hardly heard the last of these words, as they turned down the stairway, hurrying, but not fast enough to excite the suspicion of the man behind them.
"Oh, Ruth," whispered Caroline Smith.

"Oh, Ruth!" "It was close," said Ruth Tolliver, "but we're through.