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"Yes The Fifty-fourth guard it"

"Then how can you hope to pass?"

"I shall pass one way or another," I said between my teeth

She drew from her breast a cru beside ned by Sir Henry Clinton, perht

"How in Heaven's name did you secure this paper in the last nick of time?" I cried, astounded

"I knew you needed it--from what you said there in my chamber Do you remember that Sir Henry left the Fort for a council? It is not far to Queen Street; and when I left you I alloped thither"

"But--but what excuse----"

"Ask me not, Carus," she said ih cheek and teh; and I--I galloped here with the ink all wet upon the pass Whither leads this lane?"

"To the Kingsbridge road"

"Would they stop and search us if dissatisfied?"

"I think not"

"Well, I shall take no risk," she said, snatching the blotted paper from her bosom--the paper she had taken from Walter Butler, and which ritten in erow, and place the passes that you had for Sir Peter with it," she said, drawing bridle and looking back