I will not tell her so myself; because I see that, now the strain is over, she is greatly shaken, and I would not add to her anxiety; but if you could break it to her, as if it were your own idea, that she had better keep within doors until this fellow's caught, I am sure that it will be well." "You will come in this evening, I hope; and always of an evening, Captain Whitney.

It will make a change, and cheer us up; besides, we want to hear all about your adventures, since we saw you last." This Reuben gladly promised and, after it was dark, and he had placed a sentry, he came into the house.

Mrs.Barker was on duty in the sick room; and Reuben, at Mrs.Donald's request, gave them an account of the voyage out, and of the circumstances which had led to his entering the police.
He would have passed very briefly over the affair at the Cape, but by many questions Mrs.Donald succeeded in eliciting from him all the details of the story.
"It was a gallant action, indeed," she said warmly.

"You certainly saved the lives of those two girls, at a terrible risk of your own." "To make the romance complete, Whitney," Mr.Barker remarked, "you ought to have married Miss Hudson." "Unfortunately, you see," Reuben said with a smile, "in the first place I was only a boy, and she was two years my senior; in the next, and much more important place, she happened to be in love with someone else; and I did not happen to be in love with her, though she was, I admit, a very charming young lady, and had been extremely kind to me." "How was that, Whitney ?" Mr.Barker asked.

"Eighteen is a susceptible age.