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NEARLY as strong and well as ever, Adam Rust heard Garde's excited and desperate tale of Goody's capture with an indignation which far outran her own. He failed to realize, at first, the full import of Goody's position. Then, as Garde made him understand the almost inevitable execution, staring this old woman-friend in the face, at the end of a trial from which Truth would fly moaning, with her hands to her ears, the rover would have buckled on his sword and gone to batter down the jail to set the old wise woman free, had his sweetheart not restrained him with all her powers of dissuasion.
"Oh, we have got to be far more clever than that," she said. "We have got to get her out of there quietly-so quietly that we can get her away-a long way off, before the awful crowds shall find it out. Help me to do this. Help me to get her out cunningly, or we shall fail-and to-night it will all be too late."