arted to Drew's eyes, which filled, as he caught his
friend's hands in his, and the next moment the big drops began trickling
down.

"There," he said quietly, "I'm crying like a great girl. I can't help
it when I think about her. I always was a weak, passionate, hysterical
sort of fellow, Frank, and I'm worse than ever now with all this strain.
But you tell her when you go back that there are some thousands of good
men and true now in London who will not stop till they have saved dear
Sir Robert, and the other brave leaders who are shut up in that wretched
prison."

"Ah!" sighed Frank; "if they only could!"

"But we will," cried Drew excitedly.

"Well, your father is safe," said Frank bitterly. "I suppose he will
leave the country now?"

"What, and forsake his friends?" cried Drew proudly. "You don't know my
father yet. No; he says he will not stir till your father is safe; and
we'll have them out yet, if we have to burn the prison first."

Frank looked at him wildly.

"But there are more ways of killing a cat than hanging it, lad,"
continued Drew with a laugh, as he dashed away the last of his
hysterical tears. "I look a nice sort of a hero, don't I? But I came
to tell you not to be down-hearted, for there are plenty of brains at
work."

"And I must help!" cried Frank excitedly.

"No; you leave it to the older heads. I should like to help too; but my
father says that I am to leave it to him. He has a plan. And now I am
coming to what I came principally for."

"Then you have something else to say?"

"Yes. Is your mother still so very ill?"

"Yes, very."

"That is bad; but ill or no, she must make an effort."

"Oh, she is making every effort to get my father spared," cried Frank
bitterly.

"I suppose so," said Drew. "But look here; your poor father is
suffering horribly."

"As if I did not know that!" cried Frank.

"And my father says that Lady Gowan must get a permit to allow her to go
and see him in prison."

"Yes, of course," cried Frank excitedly.

"Go back then now, and tell her to get leave; the Princess will--must
get that for her. They can't refuse it."

"No, they dare not!" said Frank, whose pale face was now quivering with
emotion.

"When would she go?"

"As soon as possible--to-day if she could."

"To-morrow would be better," said Drew quietly. "She would go in her
carriage, of course."

"Oh no; she would go in one of the royal carriages--the one used by the
lad