as always behaved
well to you."

"Bah! I am nobody. I don't count. How have he and his behaved to my
poor father and to yours? Frank, I know I'm wildly excited, and feel
intoxicated by the joyful news; but I know what I am talking about, and
I will not have you behave in this miserable, cold-blooded way, when our
fathers are just about to receive their freedom and come back to their
rights."

"It's no use to argue with you when you're in this state," said Frank
coldly; "but I won't sit here and have you say things which may lead to
your being punished. I should be a poor sort of friend if I did."

"Pah! Have you no warm blood in you, that you sit there as cool as a
frog when I bring you such glorious news?"

"It isn't glorious," said Frank. "It means horrible bloodshed, ruin,
and disaster to hundreds or thousands of misguided men."

"Misguided! Do you know what you are talking about?"

"Yes, perfectly."

"Have you no feeling for your father and mother's sufferings?"

"Leave my father and mother out of the question, please."

"I can't. I know you're not a coward, Frank; but you're like a stupid,
stubborn blood-horse that wants the whip or spur to make him go. When
he does begin, there's no holding him."

"Then don't you begin to use whip or spur, Drew, in case."

"But I will. I must now. It is for your good. I'm not going to stand
by and see you and your mother crushed in the toppling-down ruins of
this falling house. Do you hear me? The time has come, and we want
every one of our friends, young and old, to strike a good bold blow for
liberty."

"Let your friends be as mad as they like," said Frank angrily. "I'm not
going to stand by either and see Drew Forbes go to destruction."

"Bah!--to victory. There, no more arguing. You are one of us, and you
must come out of your shell now, and take your place."

"I'm not one of you," said Frank sturdily, and too warm now to think of
the danger of speaking aloud; "I was tricked into saying something or
joining in while others said it, and I am not a Jacobite, and I never
will be!"

"I tell you that you are one."

"Have it so if you like; but it's in name only, and I'll show you that I
am not in deed. You talked about crying before the Prince, `God save
King James!' God save King George! There!"

He spoke out loudly now, but repented the next moment, for fear that he
should have dared his companion to execute his threat.

"Coward!" cried