The money for their ransom I brought to this place, and they will pay it even yet to save their friends from your vengeance.

Do not let these wild Americans defeat us, I beg of you.

I am not afraid.

Save yourself, and let them shoot me, if they will!" Kenneth afterward declared that he thought "the jig was up" then, for they had no intention whatever of harming Tato.

It was all merely a bit of American "bluff," and it succeeded because the brigand was a coward, and dared not emulate his daughter's courage.
"No, no, Tato!" cried the Duke, brokenly, as he wrung his hands in anguish.