"And Miss Fillmore also?"
I bowed again.
"And you do not approve?"
"I do not."
"I see your reasons. Perhaps you are right. Do you wish to abandon the girl to her fate?"
"Oh, not at all. But with more time--"
"There is no more time."
"Not to-morrow?"
"The tongs are even now in session. I have word that before morning there will be a demand for the girl, and if she is not surrendered there will be the reward of blood."
"You are more powerful than they," said I, remembering the scene of the morning.