text:  Farewell and fly!" "Not without _you_! Girl you affect to misunderstand me; or have you forgotten those promises of friendship and faith even to death that you have made me so often and so lately?" "Promises--faith?" cried his startled companion; "even admitting those playful assurances of a wild country girl's friendship were a compact could you be cruel enough to insist upon my fulfilling it in this desperate hour?" "Then all the interest you have expressed hitherto in my fate " pursued the stranger; "the sympathy you have led me to think you felt for one suffering as I have suffered in the cause of my unhappy country--the hopes excited in this heart when as I pictured a delighted life passed with you and love and freedom beyond the Atlantic you listened on with a consenting smile--all this was but pastime for your vacant hours?" "It was wrong I know " replied Katey yieldingly; "yet Heaven knows it was no pastime