What would you do to save her who was Eloise Lafreniere from such a fate of horror as now overhangs her ?" "Anything within the power of a man," I answered instantly, a painful throbbing at the heart.

"I would even drive the saving steel into your heart to keep you unsoiled from the clutch of such foul hands.

Ay! hard as the task must prove, yet I could do it, believing I performed the will of God as I struck the blow.

But even for that I am helpless, as I possess no weapon." I felt her hands touch mine, something cold being pressed against my flesh.
"I thank thee, Father, there is one whom I may trust even unto death," she sobbed prayerfully.

"Take this knife, Geoffrey Benteen.