"Hush! I know too well what your promises amount to. How can I depend even upon your oath? There's no truth or honor in you!"
"Well?" said Lysander, despairingly.
"Well, I am going to help you, for all that. Only it must not appear as if I did it. And you shall keep your oath,—or one of us shall die for it! Now be still!"
She walked back past the block that served as a table, and, when between it and Toby, quietly took the knife from it, concealing it in her sleeve.
"Don't come for me to hear any more dying requests," she said to the old negro, with a sneer. "Your prisoner will survive. Only give him a little coffee, if there is any. Here is some: I will wait upon him."
And, carrying the coffee, she dropped the knife at Lysander's side.
XLII.
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
Five minutes later Penn and Virginia arrived. Penn ran eagerly for his musket. At the same time, looking about the cave, he was surprised to see only the old clergyman sitting by the fire, and Prometheus reclining by his rock.