There's no shame in the world like your father being----" (there was a nervous gasp in her throat before she could go on)--"and he'd be awfully frightened.

Oh, you don't know how frightened he'd be! If I thought they were going to do that to him, it would just kill me.
I'll do anything; I wouldn't mind so much if they'd take me and hang me instead--it wouldn't scare me so much: but father would be just like a child, crying and crying and crying, if they kept him in jail and were going to do that in the end.

And then no one would expect Christa and me to have any more fun, and we never would have any.

There's a way that you can get father off, Bart, and give him at least one more chance to run for his life.

If you'll do it, I'll do whatever you want,--I'll sign the pledge; I'll go to church; I'll teach Christa that way.