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 warm against him, though she was drenched by the sea, that time he carried her. He banished that deliberately, by recalling the offense she had given him of the criticism, as he had taken it and as he still took it, of his comrades, and of himself, and of the great beliefs for which and in which he lived.

He could not possibly question the whole loyalty of this girl; he was not even considering that as he gazed at her. He really was watching the pretty, alluring, all unconscious pulsations of color in the clear, soft skin of her cheek and temple; he was watching the blue of her eyes under her brown brows; watching the tiny tremblings of her slender, well-shaped hands; and—as Sam Hilton used to do—he was watching the hues of light glint in her hair as she moved her head.

"I can try that, Miss Gail," he said at last. "If there's nothing found out, there will be no particular concern for the source of suspicion; but if what you say's true, I may, have to ask you a good deal more."

He left it thus when he went away a little later; for, though he would have liked to stay, she did not wish him to, insisting that he must proceed against Louis de Trevenac at once.

He did so; with results which brought him back to her at the end of the second day.

"What else do you know in connection with De Trevenac?" he demanded of her as soon as they were alone.

"You're satisfied that he's a spy?"

"The French found," Gerry said, "a most astonishing lot of things. They've mopped up about twenty more