"Yes," she said eagerly, "if----" He went on gravely: "I am going to start to-night in a row-boat for The Mills.

You can tell me where your father is, and on my way I'll do all I can to help him to get away.

It won't be much use perhaps.

It is most likely that he will only get away from this locality to be arrested in another, but all that one man can do to help him I will do; but you'll have to give me the promise first, and I'll trust you to keep it." Ann said nothing.

The immediate weight of agonised care for her father's life was lifted off her; but she had a strange feeling that the man who had taken her responsibility had taken upon him its suffering too in a deeper sense than she could understand.