"It would," he said, "seem the natural course to aid you, as we have done the warder, by driving you far into the country.

But the descriptions of you are sure to be sent to every place within fifty miles.

I know no one to whom I could safely entrust you, and the doctor says that it is impossible that our friend Dick should walk for any distance for the next two or three days.

The doctor has fortunately received orders to-day to start at daybreak this morning with a convoy going back to Sebastopol.

No doubt the new commandant had heard that he was prepared to give evidence at the court-martial contradicting the governor's statement that you were prisoners on parole, and therefore wished to get him out of the way.