I--I wouldn't believe it then, but--but I made him repeat everything he had heard.

Horrible as it was, I--I wanted to know all." "And you acknowledged to him that you were Rene Beaucaire ?" Her dark eyes flashed up into my face questioningly.
"Why--why, of course.

I--I could not deny that, could I ?" "Perhaps not; yet if none of them knew you, and you had claimed to be Eloise, they would never have dared to hold you prisoner." "I never once thought of that; the only thing which occurred to me was how I could best protect the others.

My plan was to send them warning in some way.

Still, now I am very glad I said I was Rene." "Glad! why ?" "Because it seems it is Eloise they must find to serve their papers on.
They dare not take away the slaves until this is done.