But I shall certainly manage to attend to my duty to-morrow, and I hope to be at your service.
"Meaning that yo' don't care to see me NOW, co'nnle," she said lightly, with a faint twinkle in her wise, sweet eyes.

"I thought of that, but as my business wouldn't wait, I brought it to yo'." She took from the folds of her gown a letter.

To his utter amazement it was the one he had given his overseer to post to the commandant that morning.

To his greater indignation the seal was broken.
"Who has dared ?" he demanded, half rising.
Her little hand was thrust out half deprecatingly.

"No one yo' can fight, co'nnle; only ME.