"Naida Gillis?
Do you mean old Gillis's girl?
Is it possible you are the same we rescued on the prairie two years ago ?" She bowed her head.

"Yes; do you understand now why I trust this Bob Hampton ?" "I perhaps might comprehend why you should feel grateful to him, but not why you should thus consent to meet with him clandestinely." He could not see the deep flush upon her cheeks, but he was not deaf to the pitiful falter in her voice.
"Because he has been good and true to me," she explained, frankly, "better than anybody else in all the world.

I don't care what you say, you and those others who do not know him, but I believe in him; I think he is a man.

They won't let me see him, the Herndons, nor permit him to come to the house.

He has not been in Glencaid for two years, until yesterday.