I am going to the fort.

Don't tell Mama Roussillon a thing.

Be a good boy." She was gone before Jean could say a word.

She meant to face Hamilton at once and be sure what danger menaced M.Roussillon.Of course, the flag must be given up if that would save her foster father any pain; and if his life were in question there could not be too great haste on her part.
She ran directly to the stockade gate and breathlessly informed a sentinel that she must see Governor Hamilton, into whose presence she was soon led.

Captain Farnsworth had preceded her but a minute or two, and was present when she entered the miserable shed room where the commander was having another talk with M.Roussillon.
The meeting was a tableau which would have been comical but for the pressure of its tragic possibilities.