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Rh a good one. She believed it her duty to remain at the rendezvous appointed by her husband. If the girls could be taken home they would at least be in safety, and, in event of another disturbance similar to the attack upon the Tory, there would be real danger that the children might be seriously crushed.

"Do you believe, Scip, that you would have any trouble in going from here to Hanover square?" she asked, having been taught by her husband that the old Negro might be trusted in any ordinary emergency.

"De way am clear, Missus, kase all de folks in de city am packed up here. Dere wouldn't be no fuss 'bout gettin' home; but yer carn't want'er go till de fire hab been touched off?"

"I wish to send the children home; they are in real danger here, for if we have more trouble like the last, it will be all Mistress Lamb and I can do to take care of ourselves. You are to go with them to Hanover square, and remain quietly in the house until I come."

The old darkey looked thoroughly disappointed at thus being deprived of the pleasure which would come with the kindling of the bonfire; but he was too good a servant to question the command, and, taking the girls by the hands, he would have started off without delay, but that Dorothy stopped him.