She hasn't spoken, nor does she seem to know what is going on about her.

They strapped her into the saddle." "The hell they did." "It has been a hellish affair all the way through, and the only way in which I can serve her, if this is so, is by getting her away--as far away as possible, and where this devil can never find her again.

She's got to be saved not only from him, but also from the scandal of it." He stood silent, little more than a shadow before me, his head bent, as though struggling with a new thought, a fresh understanding.
"I reckon I kin see thet, sir, now." His voice somehow contained a new note of respect, as though the truth had suddenly dawned upon him, "I didn't just get hold o' things rightly afore; why an army offercer like yer should be mixed up in this sorter job.

But I reckon I do now--yer in love with her yerself; ain't thet it, sir ?" "Yes, Tim," I confessed frankly, and not at all sorry to make the avowal.

"That is the truth.