"How can I thank you for what you have done?" I was saying to Frances Sutherland as we entered the fort by the same sally-port.
"Do you really want to know how?"
"Do I?" I was prepared to offer dramatic sacrifice.
"Then never think of it again, nor speak of it again, nor know me any more than if it hadn't happened——"
"The conditions are hard."
"And——"
"And what?" I asked eagerly.
"And help me back the way I came down. For if my father—oh! if my father knew—he would kill me!"
"Faith! So he ought!" ejaculated the priest. "Risking such precious treasure among vandals!"