His intelligence was proven now, when it came to the great test, to be of a stronger sort than hers.

He was wise and good and gentle--and a fighting man! "We know what they've done to this country and what they mean to do to ours.

So we're going to attend to them." She read this over, and she knew that Ramsey, wise and gentle and good, would fight like an unchained devil, and that he and his comrades would indeed and indeed do what they "came for." "It wasn't you," he said.

She nodded gently, agreeing, and knew what it was that sent him.

Yet Ramsey had his own secret there, and did not tell it.