CHAPTER CIX.
JOHANNA HAS PLENTY OF COMPANY AT TODD’S.
We return to Johanna, whom for a few hours, owing to the pressure of other circumstances, we have been compelled, with all manner of reluctance, to neglect.
Recent events, although they had by no manner of means tended to decrease the just confidence which Johanna had in her own safety, had yet much agitated her; and she at times feared that she should not be able to carry on the farce of composure before Todd much longer.
“Charley, my dear boy,” said Todd, “you are a very good lad, indeed, and I like you.”
“I am very glad to hear you say so, sir—very glad.”
“That is right; but when I say I like any one, I do not confine myself to that mere expression of liking, and there an end. Of course, as a religious man, I love my enemies, a
