If you were not surrounded by danger as you are, if the whoop of vengeance were not on your trail, if death and a gibbet were not in the background, I could part with you; but now that danger, vengeance, and death, are hovering about you, I shall and must partake of them with you.

And listen, Reilly; after all it is the best plan.

Papa, if I accompany you--supposing that we are taken--will relent for my sake.

I know his love for me.

His affection for me will overcome all his prejudices against you.