I fear him for myself; but above all I fear him for father.

I know that some great sorrow would come upon us if I dared to say what I really felt.

That is why I have put him off with half-promises.

It was in real truth our only hope.

But if you would fly with me, Jack, we could take father with us and live forever far from the power of these wicked men." Again there was the struggle upon McMurdo's face, and again it set like granite.