Good-by! God bless you." And in another moment he was in the saddle--had waved his hand--was gone.
Straining their eyes after him, as if they would somehow pierce the dark woods which hid his flight, mother and daughter stood as if turned to stone.

Only Virgie, after a moment, waved her hand and sent her soft, childish prayer winging after him to save him from all harm.

"Good-by, Daddy-man, good-by!" Sally Ann, however, having seen the approaching danger with her own eyes, began to wring her hands and cry hysterically.

"Aw, Miss Hallie, I so skeered! I so skeered!" "Sally," cried Mrs.Cary, as the sound of hoofbeats thudding through the woods came unmistakably to her ears, "take Virgie with you instantly and run down through the grove to the old ice house.

Hide there under the pine tags.