It cannot be for myself that I am thus appalled," I continued, the thought flashing into my mind as I spoke it, "and there is but one whose life is so closely bound with mine that danger to her should bring such terror as this.

I go at your bidding, but I will not go alone." He paused for some time, apparently in perplexity, certainly in deep thought, before he replied.
"As you will.

One thing more.

The slips of tafroo with which you furnished me have been under the eyes of which you have heard.

This" (handing me the one that bore no mark) "has passed, so far as the highest powers of the sense that is not of the body can perceive, through none but innocent hands.