"'Tain't no use disguising facts; I'm running away, and I'm leaving ye to dangers and privations.

Your money and Halsey's is gone the way of all the rest, and without me to stop him Halsey will fly in the face of the first persecution that's within his reach.

If I hadn't known that there was no chance at all of your coming I'd have asked you and the child to git into Emmar's waggon; but there's just this to say, there ain't a tribulation that can come to you that won't hurt me, living or dead, more than it can hurt you." Then after a pause he added, "Emmar sent her dear love and good-bye to ye." He stood still a moment before her in humble attitude, the words of Emma's tender farewell lingering, as it were, in the air between them.
"Have a care what you do." (He resumed a more dignified manner of speech.) "It's borne in upon my mind that great dangers will lie round you.

Tell brother Halsey from me that it is the will of the Lord that he should seek first the safety of his wife and child, and to abide in a place of safety till the child be grown." He climbed through the window.

His last act was to close the casement behind him to save her trembling hands the exertion.