"Everything," said Mrs Hallam. "Of course you cannot make this a matter of secrecy. It does not matter who knows. But the tin case; remember that is for me alone." "But the authorities," said Mrs Hallam; "they will know I am your wife." "The authorities will trouble nothing about it. I have a fairly good record, and they will be glad. As for Crellock--" "That man!" gasped Mrs Hallam. "Well?" "We saw him--as we came." Hallam's face puckered. "Poor fellow," he said hastily. "Ah, that was a specimen of the cruel treatment we receive. It was unfortunate. But we can't talk about that. There they are. Remember!" She pressed the coarse, hard hand that was holding hers as the door was thrown open, and without another word Hallam obeyed the sign made by the officer in the doorway, and, as the two women crept together, Julia receiving no further recognition, they saw him sink from his erect position, his head went down, his back rounded, and he went out. Then the door shut loudly, and they stood listening, as the steps died away, save those of the sentries in the passage and beneath the window. The silence, as they stood in that blank, cell-like room, was terrible; and when at last Julia spoke, her mother started and stared at her wildly from the confused rush of thought that was passing through her brain. "Mother, is it some dreadful dream?" Mrs Hallam's lips parted, but no words came, and for the moment she seemed to be sharing her child's mental shock, the terrible disillusioning to which she had been subjected. The recovery was quick, though, as she drew a long breath. "Dream? No, my child, it is real; and at last we can rescue him from his dreadful fate." Whatever thoughts she may have had that militated against her hopes she crushed down, forcing herself to see nothing but the result of a terrible persecution, and ready to be angered with herself for any doubts as to her duty. In this spirit she followed the man who had led them in back to the gates, where Bayle was waiting; and as he gazed anxiously in the faces of the two women it was to see Julie's scared, white, and ready to look appealingly in his, while Mrs Hallam's was radiant and proud with the light of her true woman's love and devotion to him she told herself it was her duty to obey. That night mother and daughter, clasped in each other's arms, knelt and prayed, the one for strength to carry out her duty, and restore Robert Hallam to his place in the world of men; the other for power to love the father whom she had crossed the great ocean to gain--the man who had seemed to be so little like the father of her dreams. VOLUME FOUR, CHAPTER ONE. IN THE NEW LAND--THE SITUATION. "Look here, Bayle, this is about the maddest thing I ever knew. Will you have the goodness to tell me why we are stopping here?"