As she glided back, I put it in her hand, and warning her with a look not to speak, resumed my usual occupation.

The words I had written were as follows: At or as near the time as possible of your brother's going out, you are to come to this room wrapped in an extra skirt and with your shawl over your head.

Leave the skirt and shawl behind you, and withdraw at once to the room at the head of the stairs.

You are not to speak, and you are not to vary from the plan thus laid down.

Your brother and father are to be arrested, whether or no; but if you will do as this commands, they will be arrested without bloodshed and without shame to one you know.
Her face while she read these lines, was a study, but I dared not soften toward it.