She wanted to go away
with him. She wanted to go with him anywhere, everywhere, as long as
they were together. When she had learned that his term of enlistment
was about to expire and that if he remained in the Service he would be
away from her a great deal, she had pleaded with him not to reenlist.
She did not question him when he told her that it might be necessary to
go away very suddenly, without letting another soul know of their
movements, not even Wallie. Intuitively she guessed that the reason had
something to do with John Keith, for he had let the fear grow in her
that McDowell might discover he had been a traitor to the Service, in
which event the Law itself would take him away from her for a
considerable number of years. And with that fear she was more than ever
eager for the adventure, and planned with him for its consummation.
Another thing cheered Keith. He was no longer the absolute liar of
yesterday, for by a fortunate chance he had been able to tell her that
John Keith was alive. This most important of all truths he had confided
to her, and the confession had roused in her a comradeship that had
proclaimed itself ready to fight for him or run away with him.
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