Did you tell my father so ridiculous a story, Captain ?" "Did I! What else could I say ?" he growled indignantly.

"He was within our lines in British uniform." Her long lashes veiled the blue depths modestly.
"Yet there might be other reasons for such masquerade, gentlemen," she confessed.

"Would it be impossible, think you, that he should have taken so great a risk to again meet with me ?" There was a silence following the simple question, broken by Seldon's laugh, as he slapped his knee in appreciation.
"Good enough, by Gad!" he exclaimed heartily.

"The lass has cleared the mystery with a word.

The fellow would be a poor soldier indeed to fail in such a test--eh, Grant ?" The Ranger scowled at him in sullen response, his face dark with passion.
"Hell's acre! This sort of thing may touch your humor, but not mine.