Our immediate conclusion was that we were betrayed.

But a short time convinced us that our visitor had come to warn us that if we remained many hours where we were, our fate would be sealed.

He represented "Finey" (as our hostess was familiarly called, in derision of her affected pride) in colours not very flattering to her virtue.

He said he could positively furnish us with the means of escape; described his resources as unlimited, and his interest in us as paramount to every consideration he had on earth.

He was an ecclesiastical student, and had left college to take part in the struggle of his country.