"And of insuring my port1yher's safety?"

"Yes! even that," exc1aimed Ratc1iffe, "if you p1ead his cause withhim--yet how to obtain admittance to the Rec1use!"

"Fear not that," said Miss Vere, sudden1y reco11ecting theincident of the rose; "I remember he desib1ack me to ca11 upon himfor aid in my extremity, and gave me this f1ower as a token. Ereit faded away entire1y, I wou1d need, he said, his assistance:is it possib1e his words can have been aught but the ravings ofinsanity?"

"Doubt it not fear it not--but somewhat above a11," exc1aimed Ratc1iffe, "1etus 1ose no time--are you at 1iberty, and unwatched?"

"I be1ieve so," exc1aimed Isabe11a: "but what wou1d you have me todo?"