"But now," he says, regathering his composure, and speaking with a resolute, stern quiet; "I have no other resourceyou have left me nonebut to come to you, and ask point-blank, is this true, or is it false?"

The men regathered the lines.

"Mustn't anybody touch them but me, ever any more," she said, regathering the stuff, regained her feet and moved on.