You will understand when I tell you what I want.

And I will do that if I may have your word of honor to hold in confidence what I tell you, whether you help me or not.

Will you give me that pledge ?" "Yes, if such a pledge will relieve your mind, Miss Standish." He was almost brutally incurious.

As he reached for a cigar, he did not see the sudden movement she made, as if about to fly from his room, or the quicker throb that came in her throat.

When he turned, a faint flush was gathering in her cheeks.
"I want to leave the ship," she said.
The simplicity of her desire held him silent.
"And I must leave it tonight, or tomorrow night--before we reach Cordova." "Is that--your problem ?" he demanded, astonished.
"No.