24/25 You will not find me hold back when the moment comes." Lord Claud took his hand and held it in both of his. But I have that intrusted to me which I must speak in the Duke's ear. The despatches are as little compared with what I have had from Marlborough's own lips--what may not be trusted upon paper. If one of us has to be delivered over to death, it must be you." "It must. I see it well." "Yet we may both succeed in getting through, or we may both leave our bones lying amid the eternal snows. |