"So, I can help ye to-morry if ye ain't in Daddy's fix?"
Then Frederick understood that she would have saved him, even if he had been in danger of his life.
"Yes," he replied, "you can aid me.... Do you know where my fraternity is?"
Tess shook her head with a troubled expression.
"I can tell you where it is! I want you to go there and ask for Dan Jordan and tell him I am here. You must speak to no one else about me, or they will come and take me away, and I told you I would almost rather die than not be with my class at the banquet."
Tessibel's spirits rose high. She could help him—after all.
"How air ye goin' to get into the place where ye eats without gettin' took again?"
A flashing intelligence leaped into the brown eyes during her question.
"I knows how I can help ye." She lowered her voice and began to describe the escape and the final fulfillment of their plan.