"
"I don't know that," said Tanner. "Come, let's have it out;
and if it will do him any good. I'll see if we can't manage
to find him."
"I can impart my news to him and no one else," said Sybil. "I
am solemnly bound."
"You can't have a better counseller than Tanner," urged his
wife, getting curious; "you had better tell us."
"I want no counsel; I want that which you can give me if you
choose--information. My father instructed me that if certain
circumstances occurred it was a matter of the last urgency
that I should see him this evening and before nine o'clock, I
was to call here and obtain from you the direction where to
find him; the direction," she added in a lowered tone, and
looking Tanner full in the face, "where they hold their secret
council to-night."
"Hem!" said Tanner: "I see you're on the free-list. And pray
how am I know you *are* Gerard's daughter?"
"You do not doubt I am his daughter!" said Sybil proudly.
"Hem!" said Tanner: "I do not know that I do very much," and
he whispered to his wife. Sybil removed from them as far as
she was able.
"And this news is very urgent," resumed Tanner; "and concerns
me you say?"
"Concerns you all," said Sybil; "and every minute is of the
last importance.
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