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I quickly realised my position , however , and acted accordingly . `` Yes , you must do what I ask you , Tryphena , '' I said . `` I tell ` ee I ca'ant . '' `` Then Ikey Trethewy will be in the hands of the Preventive men by to-morrow , '' I replied , `` and Richard Tresidder will know that a man has come to his house for years at midnight on the sly . '' I did not want to frighten the poor woman , but it had to be done . I saw , too , that I had said sufficient to make Tryphena afraid to thwart me . `` What do ` ee want me to do ? ''