I trust to God to help me.

I will have nothing to do with you;" and she put her hands before her face and burst into tears.
"You look lovely when you weep," he said with a laugh; "to-morrow I shall be able to kiss away your tears.

As you will.

Here, you!" he shouted to some men, who could be seen watching the progress of the dying fire, "come here." Some of the men obeyed, and to them he gave instructions in the same terms that he had given to the other two men who were watching old Silas, ordering Bessie to be instantly incarcerated in the corresponding little room on the other side of the waggon-house, and kept strictly from all communication with the outside world, adding, however, these words: "Bid the burghers assemble in the waggon-house for the trial of the Englishman, Silas Croft, for treason against the State, and attempted murder of one of the burghers of the State in the execution of the commands of the Triumvirate." The two men advanced and seized Bessie by both arms.

Then, faint and overpowered, she was led through the little plantation, over a gap in the garden wall, down past the scorched syringa-trees which lined the roadway that ran along the hillside at the back of the still burning house, till they reached the waggon-house with the two little rooms which served respectively as a store and a harness room.