I rather like you, young man--not your damned uniform, understand--and the way you've acted toward my girl.

You've been honorable and square, and, by Gad, sir, you're a gentleman.

That's why I am going to see you through this affair.

If all I hear is true, Le Gaire came back to me with a lie, and that is something I have never taken yet from any man." He stood straight as an arrow, his shoulders squared, his slender form buttoned tightly in the gray uniform coat.

The sun was upon his face, clear-cut, proud, aristocratic, and his eyes were the same gray-blue as his daughter's.