There is one thing." "Yes ?" "That you will help me." "_I_--a girl!" "Yes.

Does it not occur to you I am absolutely alone ?" She started and for an instant her eyes had pity.

"Need you ask whether I will help you ?" she said.
There came a tense silence, and then the beating of a clock striking the hour.

Graham rose.
"Even now," he said, "Ostrog will be waiting." He hesitated, facing her.
"When I have asked him certain questions--.

There is much I do not know.
It may be, that I will go to see with my own eyes the things of which you have spoken.