I feel the kindness and interest of your solicitude--deeply feel, and greatly respect it; but, unless you can give me some reasonable ground for your fears, I must be stubborn in resisting a connection which would have me fly like a midnight felon, without having seen the face of my foe." "Oh, heed not these false scruples.

There is no shame in such a flight, and believe me, sir, I speak not unadvisedly.

Nothing, but the most urgent and immediate danger would have prompted me, at this hour, to come here.

If you would survive this night, take advantage of the warning and fly.

This moment you must determine--I know not, indeed, if it be not too late even now for your extrication.