You must not leave Folking.

But as for myself,--I have ideas about my own life.' 'Are they such that you can tell them ?' 'Yes;--you shall hear them all.

But I shall expect you to help me;--or at least not turn against me ?' 'Turn against you, John! I hope I may never have to do that again.

What is that you mean ?' This he said very seriously.

There was usually in his voice something of a tone of banter,--a subdued cynicism,--which had caused everybody near him to be afraid of him, and which even yet was habitual to him.