"My dear fellow, how are you?" said he through the singing, making his horse keep pace with the company.

"Nay, but," said Isaac, insisting, "they will deem us more thankless than mere dogs!"

Yet ere Isaac departed, the Outlaw Chief bestowed on him this parting advice:---"Be liberal of thine offers, Isaac, and spare not thy purse for thy daughter's safety. Credit me, that the gold thou shalt spare in her cause, will hereafter give thee as much agony as if it were poured molten down thy throat."