“I!” she said with a faint laugh; “I shall wait here until they come.”
“Wait here!” cried Humphrey. “They will kill you!”
“Yes,” she said softly.
“Then why not share my flight? Come with me now while there is time. I will protect you and take you where you will. I cannot leave you like this!”
“Not leave me?” she said with a sob.
“No. Do you think me such a cur that I could leave you to the mercy of these wretches?”
“It is too late,” she said. “Go!”
“Go?”
“Yer, while there is time.”
“But you can hide as well as I!” he cried excitedly. “Come!”