"We've got a company of troops down there to guard the big dam.

It's safer there than it is here.

What do you think of going back now, to stop until this row is over?
We can take better care of you there than we can here." She sat for a moment, her face turned away.
"Will you come ?" he repeated.
"One guess!" said Annie Squires for her.

"In a minute!" And by that time she was throwing things into the valises..