Knocking in a very peculiar manner, he was admitted at once by a tall and strikingly beautiful young woman, whom he addressed as if well acquainted with her.
"I'm here, Addie, and I've seen _him._" "You found him all right, when you told him who sent you, did you not ?" asked the lady, leading the way to a sitting-room in the rear of the cottage.
"Yes, ready to do anything for one you recommend." "Poor Bill! A braver man and a truer friend never lived.

He loves me, and I fear it will be his ruin, for he will too often come within the reach of those who would destroy him, if they only knew where and how to reach him.

Persecution and cruelty placed him on the bloody path he has had to follow, and now--now he is an outlaw, beyond all chance for mercy, should he ever be taken." "He never will be taken, guarded as he is." "You saw his guards, then ?" "Yes, forty or fifty of them, and I would rather have them as friends than foes.

He wants you to ride out with me to meet him when I go next with some information that he needs." "When will that be ?" asked the lady.
"In the early morning, or perhaps to-night, if nothing happens to me between now and sunset to make it unnecessary!" "Between now and sunset?
That is within two hours.

Do you anticipate any danger ?" "Not much.