He leaned across the table separating him from Priscilla Glenn and asked
suddenly:
"Can you keep a secret?"
Promptly, emphatically, the answer came. "Yes, I can."
"Then listen! You must stay here, hide yourself, keep yourself as best
you may, while I go to--make arrangements. I will be no longer than I can
help, but it will take time. The house is well stocked; make yourself
comfortable. There are days when no one knows whether I am here or
elsewhere. Protect yourself until I return. And when"--Farwell paused and
moistened his lips--"when you are over the border, in the whirlpool, the
past, this life, must be forgotten. Raise up a high wall, Priscilla, that
no one can scale. Begin your new life from the hour you reach the States.
The one who will befriend you need know no more than I tell him; others
must take you on faith. At any moment your father, or some one like
Jerry-Jo, might hound you unless you live behind a shield. You
understand?"
He did not plead for his own safety, and he was, at that moment, humanly
thinking of hers alone.
"If you get the worst of it, come back; but leave the gate open only
for--yourself.
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