le, to speak a
good word to the captain to help them out of it."

"The captain is a just man, and will return kindness with kindness, no
doubt of that," answered Tom. "But I say, Polly, if any one can find
out where Miss Margery is, you can, for I am as certain as I stand here
that your father, or James, or some of your friends, had a hand in
carrying her off. Come, speak the truth, girl; you'll gain more by
helping us to find her than by any other way."

"Yes! it was a cruel shame to carry her away," she muttered, in a low
voice; "but I dare not indeed I dare not."

"Dare not do what, Polly?" asked Tom, in a soothing tone.

"Tell where she is, or help you to get her," answered the girl,
promptly.

"Then you do know where she is, Polly, and may be who took her away, and
all about her," said Tom. "Now what I've got to say is this, that just
do you do what's right, and never do you fear what any one can do to
you."

The girl still hesitated.

"Just let me ask you a question, Polly," continued Tom. "Is your father
in trouble, or James? Tell me that."

"Yes! the revenue men have got some information against them, and are
after them both."

"Then depend on't, Polly, the best thing for them is to give up Miss
Margery before they are caught," said Tom; "they'll gain nothing by
giving her up afterwards. The law doesn't make terms with people."

"But they're terrible people who've got her," answered Polly. "They'd
as soon shoot you, or me, or anybody, as look at us, if we came near
them."

"We don't fear terrible men," said Tom, laughing, "just do you put us in
the way of getting back Miss Margery, and we'll say as many good words
as we can for thy father, Polly, and for James too, if he needs them."

"But you'll do no harm to those who have got her, and all you'll say is
that Polly Herring, Dick Herring's daughter, helped you to get her
back," said the girl, in a tone which showed that she still feared the
consequences of what she was about to do.

Charley had not before spoken, but he now thanked her, and urged her to
lose no time in restoring Margery to them.

"Come on, then," she said, in a firm voice; "it's a long way from here,
but you may be there and back at the Tower with the little girl before
daybreak." These words made Charley's affectionate heart beat with joy.
Polly added, however, "We must be careful, though, for if we were to
fall in with any of our people it would go hard with you and m