'You have no more sheep to sell?'
'None but ewes, which cannot be parted with.'
'Nor a cow?'
'It would be impossible for us to spare her.'
'Then I will lend you the money,' said George. 'I have something laid by, and you shall have what you need for the rent out of it. Mehalah will repay me some day.'
'I will, George! I will!' said the girl vehemently, and her eyes filled. She took the two hands of her lover in her own, and looked him full in the face. Her eyes expressed the depth of her gratitude which her tongue could not utter.
'Now that is settled,' said De Witt, 'let us talk of something else.'
'Come along, George,' said Mehalah, hastily, interrupting him. 'If you want to be put across on Fresh Marsh, you must not stay talking here any longer.'
'All right, Glory! I am ready to go with you, anywhere, to the world's end.'
As she drew him outside, she whispered, 'I was afraid of your speaking about the two shots to-night. I do not wish my mother to hear of that; it would alarm her.'