"How could you do--" "I could do anything to-night.

But you are safe; no one has harmed you.

Oh, thank God, you are not hurt!" And I clung to his arm--my friend, whom I had missed so long, so sorely.
He held me tight--his heart felt as mine, only more silently.
"Now, Phineas, we have a minute's time.

I must have you safe--we must get into the house." "Who is there ?" "Jael; she is as good as a host of constables; she has braved the fellows once to-night, but they're back again, or will be directly." "And the mill ?" "Safe, as yet; I have had three of the tan-yard men there since yesterday morning, though your father did not know.

I have been going to and fro all night, between there and here, waiting till the rioters should come back from the Severn mills.