I'se ter take keer ob dem all, an' let yer take keer o' yerself." "Exactly, because, you see, I haven't the slightest idea what I am going to run up against.

There may be others in the house, and I might not dare to leave Miss Eloise behind alone without some protection.

In a way she is in almost as much danger as the others if she falls into Kirby's hands.

I shall endeavor to induce her to go to Haines at once." Following some impulse I shook hands with him, and then plunged into the darkness, my only guidance at first that single ray of light streaming through the unshaded window.

The ground underfoot was roughly irregular, cleared forest land evidently, as I occasionally stumbled over an unremoved stump, although there was nothing to seriously obstruct my passage until I reached the fence surrounding the garden.