He'd have been fighting now if he had not licked him." The rest of the talk was of General Keith and of the hardship of his position.
"They are as poor as death," said Rhodes.

He told of his surroundings.
When Norman got home, he went to his mother.

Her eye lighted up as it rested on the alert, vigorous figure and fresh, manly, eager face.

She knew he had something on his mind.
"Mother, I have a plan," he said.

"You remember Gordon Keith, the boy whose boat I sank over in England--'Keith the rebel' ?" Mrs.Wentworth remembered well.