When on returning he had learned it, he made up his mind to help her out with a warning even if it kept him up all night.
He had not expected to bring her back with him, but she had insisted upon his doing so, saying that she had friends in the mountains who would look after her.

He saw that she was dreadfully in earnest, for she had not stopped to get her hat and would not have had so much as an extra stitch with her if she had not taken the precaution to hide a bag of things somewhere in the bushes near the factory, in anticipation of some such emergency.

And he couldn't resist her.

She made him think of a sister of his who had had a dreadful time of it in the world and was now well out of it, thank God! When the ferryman heard that a reward of hundreds of dollars was waiting for the man who succeeded in bringing her before the police officials in New York, he betrayed some chagrin, but even this did not last.

He was soon declaring with heartfelt earnestness that he didn't care anything about that.