I cannot give you directions, but I can lead you to the place." "I should not like you to do that," Vincent said.

"We might be caught, and your share in the affair might be suspected." "Oh there is no fear of that," the girl said; "besides, I am not afraid of danger." "I don't think it is right, Miss Kingston, for a young lady like you to be living here alone with an old servant in such times as these.

You ought to go into a town until it's all over." "I have no one to go to," the girl said simply.

"My father bought this place and moved here from Georgia only six years ago, and all my friends are in that State.

Except our neighbors round here I do not know a soul in Tennessee.