Only she was positive that you could not be Rene Beaucaire, because she knew that Rene, in company with her mother, had departed from Shrunk's cabin before those raiders came.

The two had already started for Beardstown." She sat upright, all lassitude gone from her body, leaning eagerly toward me, her eyes alight with interest.
"Gone! Rene escaped them!" she exclaimed, her voice choking, "Oh, tell me that again.

Was the girl sure ?" "Quite sure; she had cooked them breakfast and talked with Rene afterwards.

She saw and spoke with both the women before they left in a wagon.

They were on the Underground, bound for Canada, and safety." "Thank God! Oh, I thank God!" Her face sank until it was concealed within her hands.