She sprang from the divan, and drew herself up indignantly.
"Please let me go," she said haughtily.

"You have saved my life, but if you had saved it twenty times, I could not like a man who is a deserter!" Dick had at first been speechless with astonishment at the girl's change of manner, and at her reception of the news he had thought would have been very pleasant to her.

As her last words threw a light upon the matter, he burst into a merry laugh.
"I am no deserter, Annie.

Save my friend at the door and yourself, there is no one here who knows that I am English.

Sit down again, and I will tell you how I come to be here.
"My father was the captain of an English ship.