Great harm would be done if news of this affair were to get abroad.

You understand that what has passed here must never be known by the outside world.

My father and Baron von Marhof have counseled that, and you may be sure there are reasons why these things must be kept quiet, or they would seek the law's aid at once." "Yes; I have been a soldier; but after this little war I shall bury the dead.

In an hour I shall be back to drive the buckboard to Lamar station." Claiborne looked at his watch.
"I will go with you," he said.
They started through the wood toward the Port of Missing Men; and together they found rough niches in the side of the gap, down which they made their way toilsomely to the boulder-lined stream that laughed and tumbled foamily at the bottom of the defile.

They found the wreckage of the slender bridge, broken to fragments where the planking had struck the rocks.