He is going with us." Then he added, almost in a whisper, "Before we return I shall know." Alluna seized his arm.

"Promise to come back, John! Promise that you will come back even if this should be the man." "I promise.

Don't worry, little woman; I'm not ready for a reckoning yet." He gave her certain instructions about the store, charging her in particular to observe the utmost secrecy regarding the strike, else she might precipitate a premature excitement which would go far towards ruining his and Poleon's chances.

All of which she noted; then, as he turned away, she laid her hand on his arm and said: "If you do not know him he will not know you.

Is it not so ?" "Yes." "Then the rest is easy--" But he only shook his head doubtfully and answered, "Perhaps--I am not sure," and went inside, where he made up a light pack of bacon, flour and tea, a pail or two, a coffee-pot and a frying-pan, which he rolled inside a robe of rabbit-skin and bound about in turn with a light tarpaulin.