It had never entered his mind that they were to be separated now.

Dissolve their partnership in crime?
To him it seemed as if they had just begun to live since that night when they had at last understood each other.

And it had come to this--separation.
"A man can always shift for himself better if he has no impediments," she said, speaking rapidly as if to bolster up her own resolution.

"A woman is always an impediment in a crisis like this." In her face he saw what he had never seen before.

There was love in it that would sacrifice everything.