I want you to stop; yet I could not love you so much if I did not see you ready to play the man at such a crisis." "I shall give in my name with the rest," I answered.
"Hubert, it is hard to spare you--hard to send you to such danger.
But for one other thing, I am glad you are going....

They must take Sebastian alive; they must NOT kill him." "They will shoot him red-handed if they catch him," I answered confidently.

"A white man who sides with the blacks in an insurrection!" "Then YOU must see that they do not do it.

They must bring him in alive, and try him legally.

For me--and therefore for you--that is of the first importance." "Why so, Hilda ?" "Hubert, you want to marry me." I nodded vehemently.