I think the storm is over--there is no wind--and if you are here when day comes--" Her fingers loosened.

Jolly Roger reached out and somewhere in the darkness he found her hand.

It clasped his own--firm, warm, thrilling.
"I thank you for what you have done," she whispered.

"But the law--and Breault--they have no mercy!" She was gone, swiftly and silently, and McKay looked through the slit in the wall until she was with her father again.
In the gloom he drew Peter close to him.
"We're up against it again, Pied-Bot," he confided under his breath.
"We've got to take another chance." He worked without sound, and in a quarter of an hour his pack was ready, and the entrance to his tunnel dug out.

He went into the outer room then, where Josephine Tavish was awake.