'We shall not be together. To-morrow I shall be in the Prison. For how long God only knows.'
'Since He knows, my dear, keep up your heart. When was the righteous man forsaken? Come, let us talk. There may be some means found. If we were to pay—though we owe nothing—so much a week.'
'Alice, it is not the debt. There is no debt. It is revenge, and the hope——'
I did not finish—what I would have added was, 'The hope that I may die of gaol fever or something.' 'My dear, be brave and let us arrange. First, I lose my situation in the Church and at the Gardens. Next, we must provide for the child and for thyself outside the prison. No, my dear, if the Lord permits us to live any other way the child shall not be brought up a prison bird.'
CHAPTER X
THE ARREST
In this distress I again consulted Tom, who knew already the whole case.
'In my opinion, Will,' he said, 'the best thing for you is to run away. Let Alice and the boy come here. Run away.'
'Whither could I run?'