The negro bowed, while his chest heaved rapidly.
"And now," said the girl, pointing to the door, "go!"
He hesitated, as if he wanted to say more to her, but recollecting that she would meet him so soon, he turned and obeyed her. At the threshold he only paused to say, "You must come alone; otherwise it will be of no use." And she answered that she understood.
She followed some paces behind and closed the door after him, pushing a bolt that she did not remember had ever been used before.
Then she turned to encounter her sister; but Millicent had disappeared.
CHAPTER XVIII.
BLACK AND WHITE.
When Daisy reached her own room again, she felt assured that no one but herself and Millicent knew what had occurred. This was something. Had her father awakened, she did not know what might have followed. She had seen him too often, pale and distraught, in the presence of his relentless enemy, not to entertain the greatest thankfulness that he had slept through this terrible experience. At any cost it must be kept from him. She would beg, pray, entreat Millicent to seal her lips. And in the morning she would go to the address Hannibal had given her and obtain his proofs of her father's guilt, removing the frightful nightmare that had so long hung over that dear head.