Once there you can tell Marion that your life depends on her accompanying you to Obadiah's.

I believe she will go.

If she won't--" He stretched out his arms as if in anticipation of the burden they might hold.

"If she won't--I'll help you carry her!" "And meanwhile," said Neil, "Arbor Croche's men--" "Will be as dead as herring floaters if they show up!" he cried, leaping two feet off the ground in his enthusiasm.

"I've got twelve of the damnedest fighters aboard my ship that ever lived and ten of them will be in the edge of the woods!" Neil's eyes were shining with something that made Nathaniel turn his own to the loading of his pipe.
"Captain Plum, I hope I will be able to repay you for this," he said.
There was a trembling break in his voice and for a moment Nathaniel did not look up.