Faithful unto death at the post of duty.

The little drama was perfectly plain to him.

But who were these raiders?
Who could they be?
And Katharine?
"Oh, my God," he exclaimed, stung into quick action at the thought of a possible peril to his love.

"Come, Dick, to the house; she may be in danger." "But dis libe one, Mars' Hil'ry ?" "Quick, quick! leave him; we will see about him later." With no further attempt at caution, they sprang recklessly up the steep path, and, gaining the brow of the hill, ran at full speed toward the house.

He noticed that there were no lights in the negro quarters, no sounds of the merry-making usually going on there in the early evening.
Through the open windows on the side of the house, he had a hasty glimpse of the disordered dining-room.